Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 2 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 3 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 4 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 5 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 6 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 7 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 8 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |