Example sentences of "as it be [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the first national employees to receive service awards in Colombia , as it is five years since LASMO set up business in the country . |
| 2 | Some readers may remember attending the building when it was St Mary 's Junior School , indeed many nostalgic , even misty-eyed visits are made to the building by people who remember the school as it was many years ago . |
| 3 | Thank you ‘ Small Town Ireland ’ for showing that bigotry towards people who choose to be different in , either sexual inclination or otherwise , is still alive and kicking in your bastion of the caring Catholic Church today , as it was thirty years ago . |
| 4 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 5 | It 's a fundamental right and it 's as important now as it was nine years ago . |
| 6 | This is its historic mission , as necessary today as it was 100 years ago . |
| 7 | While the consultant 's review shows that all countries are planning to increase their investment in these competitive edge systems over the next five years , the UK 's present level of spending ( as a percentage of the total ) is behind that in the US and Japan , as it was five years ago . |
| 8 | Asked about the recent fall in the pound , he explained in a later BBC interview : ‘ On the average , the exchange rate today is pretty well the same as it was three years ago . |
| 9 | A stunning finale is created when panoramic views of the existing castle ruin are overlaid by specially commissioned paintings reconstructing the entire castle as it was 700 years ago . |
| 10 | THE AGONY of what happened to her son is as acute for Joan McDermott today as it was 20 years ago . |