Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 It all began forty-four years ago .
2 It all began 40 years ago when David was 18 and his father started him off farming at Mowbray House .
3 It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill .
4 The company is called Cromemco , after the dormitory , Crothers Memorial , where it all started six years ago .
5 He said : ‘ The trouble is that when it all started 100 years ago no-one envisaged just how popular rock climbing would become .
6 It all started several years ago when Matthew was commissioned to produce a graphics pattern for the film processing industry .
7 It all started 2 years ago last October .
8 Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago .
9 Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago .
10 Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes .
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