Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , we paid thirty eight pound off it last year .
2 I mean I lost weight on it last year .
3 Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’
4 What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 .
5 Black Shandy failed but GBS made a tidy living selling nuts and snacks until PTGI decided to develop a closer trading relationship with it last year and to manage more directly the retail distribution of the FES brand .
6 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
7 Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died .
8 We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year .
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