Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was over thirty years ago . |
| 2 | To take a genuine historical example , it was over seventy years before Copernicus 's prediction about the phases of Venus was found to be correct , and several centuries before the Copernican prediction that the fixed stars should exhibit parallax was confirmed . |
| 3 | It was over two years after I had subtracted Blyth with an adder that I found an opportunity to get rid of Paul . |
| 4 | It was over 60 years ago that Sir Jesse Boot ( later Lord Trent ) , founder of the Boots Company , made a magnificent gift of land and money which enabled the University College to move from Nottingham town centre . |
| 5 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 6 | It was over forty years before a trail led to Whitewright , Texas , where they were being offered for sale by the descendants of Joe Tom Meador , the lieutenant in question , who had died in 1980 . |
| 7 | Catalytic processes were not fully understood at that time and it was over forty years before Messel in England and Winkler in Germany perfected manufacturing techniques . |
| 8 | It was nearly twenty-six years before he saw his nephew again . |
| 9 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 10 | It was nearly four years later that I returned , and then not to Heidelberg . |
| 11 | It was nearly six years since I first met the people of Sabra and Shatila . |
| 12 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 14 | It was nearly 21 years to the day since joined ( as it was then ) as a salesman in Dorset . |
| 15 | It was nearly 20 years before Cade 's discovery was reinvestigated and found to be a useful treatment for maniacal patients . |
| 16 | It was nearly 20 years ago and I was proof-reading an immense document called Labour 's Programme . |
| 17 | It was just ten years since the introduction of the breathalyser and people were beginning to get complacent . |
| 18 | His notebooks show him hesitating between reminiscence ( ‘ It was exactly eight years ago ’ ) and testimony during trial ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell everything ’ ) . |
| 19 | But this Saturday differed from other Saturdays : it was exactly five years since her father had died . |
| 20 | As they toasted the agreement in champagne , and Oldfield and Branson shook hands , somebody pointed out that it was exactly ten years since Tubular Bells had first entered the charts . |
| 21 | It was exactly 30 years ago , on a horse called Oxo . |
| 22 | We had been admitted to my university , though only just ; it was under ten years since Cambridge has allowed women to take degrees ( and one don still addressed a hall full of students as ‘ gentlemen ’ ) . |
| 23 | In particular , if a historical perspective enters into the survey it may well be quite invaluable to interview old people for their memories of the community as it was so many years ago . |
| 24 | It was now seventeen years since the Countryside in 1970 Conference , when he had talked about ‘ the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms ’ . |
| 25 | In 1232 the Waverley annalist noted that it was now eight years since the king had confirmed the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest and the bishops had pronounced sentence of excommunication against those who violated them . |
| 26 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 27 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 28 | Queen Victoria suffered a severe blow in December , 1861 when her beloved Prince Albert died — it was very many years before she eventually accepted his death , Memorials to him included the elaborate memorial in Kensington Gardens , with the world 's continents represented around its base , and facing the magnificent Albert Hall which is still the home of various public occasions and wonderful concerts . |
| 29 | It was almost two years since then , but the scents in her nostrils were so evocative that every detail of that occasion came sharply into her mind . |
| 30 | It was almost two years since John 's abduction . |