Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago .
2 The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago .
3 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 .
4 The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights .
8 While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago .
12 Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue .
13 Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago .
14 The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago .
15 ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago .
16 The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago .
17 No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth .
18 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 .
19 Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago .
20 When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name .
21 The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago .
22 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 .
23 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago .
24 There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago .
25 The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago .
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