Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 2 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 3 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 4 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 5 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 6 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 7 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 8 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 9 | The Prince missed it two years ago with the same back trouble . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal made it nine years . |