Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can remember it being done 15 years ago at Hodder & Stoughton . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 3 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 4 | It 's taken five years and sixty thousand pounds to get this far … half way . |
| 5 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 6 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 7 | It 's taken 3 years of planning , £16,000 in donations and bucketfuls of elbow grease to install the collection in the 12th century church and all for a parish of fewer than 700 people . |
| 8 | It 's taken 3 years to build . |
| 9 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 10 | It 's taken ten years to convert the whole farm and today it offers a vision of what organic farms of the future could look like . |
| 11 | He confesses he found the book 's success unreal and it 's taken several years to find level ground again . |
| 12 | It 's taken 114 years to build up Blackwells from a one-room shop to today 's multi-million pound business . |
| 13 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 14 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 15 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 16 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 17 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 18 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 19 | The Riverside programme incorporates drama , music recitals , rock bands , chat shows , ballet , contemporary dance , opera , variety , professional snooker , children 's shows , pantomime and recordings for television and radio shows ( it is planned this year to record BBC TV 's ‘ Question Time ’ ) . |
| 20 | The Riverside programme incorporates drama , music recitals , rock bands , chat shows , variety , professional snooker , children 's shows , pantomime and recordings for television and radio shows ( it is planned this year to record BBC TV 's ‘ Question Time ’ ) . |
| 21 | It is celebrated each year by the Jews . |
| 22 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 23 | It also has to struggle with the social and economic consequences of the recession vested on the country by central government and of course it is expected this year to meet the costs of what is an unwanted and will be a costly and unsatisfactory reorganisation of local government . |
| 24 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 25 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 26 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 27 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , the ULFA has the support of a fair chunk of the population and , more important , is in cahoots with the Asom Gana Parishad , the regional Assamese party that ruled the state till it was sacked last year . |
| 29 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
| 30 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |