Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] ago " 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 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 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 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 7 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 11 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months 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 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 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 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |