Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 2 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 3 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 4 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 5 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 6 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 7 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 8 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 9 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 10 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 11 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 12 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 13 | but it took five years |
| 14 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 15 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 16 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 17 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 18 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 19 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 20 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 21 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 23 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 24 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 25 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |
| 26 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 27 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 28 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 29 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 30 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |