Example sentences of "and [adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
| 2 | Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks . |
| 3 | We turned back to the sprawling baggage , so profuse and various it seemed organic , mushrooming in the rich compost of arrivals and departures . |
| 4 | It was n't much , compared to Store food , but to nomes who had spent all day hungry and miserable it smelled good . |
| 5 | But gradually in the l950s and 1960s it became clear that , though the economy had grown considerably since 1945 , the UK was not keeping up with its rivals abroad . |
| 6 | During 1967 and 1968 it received some one hundred and fifty cards or letters every day . |