Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 2 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 3 | The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later . |
| 4 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 5 | This promised visit to the school , mused Hank , would be his father 's first since he had graduated from it twenty-five years earlier . |
| 6 | I 've also still got my old Gibson Melody Maker ; I put humbuckers in it many years ago and it 's got a really warm , big sound . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 10 | The other hands stopped dead when my shovel fell on it some years ago . ’ |