Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 2 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 3 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 4 | It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association . |
| 5 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 6 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
| 7 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
| 8 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 9 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 10 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 11 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 12 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |
| 13 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 14 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 15 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |