Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
2 | Quorum , which says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple Computer Inc , which held up financing and staffing , will position the product as a Mac application adaptor rather than an emulator . |
3 | Quorum , who says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple ( UX No 393 ) which held up financing and staffing , will position Equal as a Mac application adapter rather than an emulator . |
4 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
5 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
6 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
7 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
8 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
9 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
10 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
11 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
12 | It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year . |
13 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
14 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
15 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |