Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] year [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has this year as well I think . |
| 2 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 3 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 4 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 5 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
| 6 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 7 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 8 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 9 | It lasted 26 years before John Bays , who is still competition secretary , allowed the professionals back into the Senior Cup , and the bowl which they had competed for became the prize for a new competition , the Essex Senior Trophy . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's many years since the gods sent me one to tend . ’ |
| 11 | It 's many years since the last train ran from here to Gloucester . |
| 12 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |