Example sentences of "it was two [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders . |
| 2 | It was two hours later when they returned to Leitzig 's office . |
| 3 | It was two hours later , and the sprawling house was still loud with laughter and voices , and crammed with people . |
| 4 | It was two minutes later . |
| 5 | I have a print of Fernhill as it was two centuries ago . |
| 6 | It was two days later at eleven in the morning . |
| 7 | It was two days later , and the news had got round that Miguel and Shelley were heroes . |
| 8 | Malcolm , myself and Chris went round I think it was two days before , looked for the well it 's a lot tidier that it was the previous time because of the new racking . |
| 9 | The seed was sown in Paris but it was two years later , in Turin , when the first production car , the Dino 206GT , was introduced . |
| 10 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 11 | It was two years ago in Lanzarote that Hall received another knee injury when he looked certain to claim the flanker place — eventually taken by Teague — for England 's 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 12 | ‘ It was two years ago , and is now , to produce non-inflationary growth in this country and to put people back into profit , back into jobs and back into prosperity in this country . |
| 13 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 14 | The price of a large coffee-table book is in a number of cases twenty times higher than it was two years ago . |
| 15 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 16 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 17 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 18 | so it was , even then , it was summer after that she was trying for Em , it was two years after . |
| 19 | It was two weeks away from Christmas . |
| 20 | ‘ The win over England was special but it was two weeks ago . |
| 21 | it was on a Friday , it was her day off , she got called in at about three o'clock and they told her then , it was two weeks ago now |
| 22 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |