Example sentences of "it was [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 2 | It was a hundred years of Open Championships since the Belt was played for at Prestwick . |
| 3 | It was a hundred years later that electricity was first used . |
| 4 | this is as true today as it was a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 5 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 6 | The Greek merchant fleet is much smaller than it was a dozen years ago . |
| 7 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 8 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 10 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 11 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
| 12 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 13 | It was a few years back . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 15 | It was the worst years he had with his wife . |
| 16 | It was the Seven Years War which broke up completely and decisively the old system of balance four decades later . |