Example sentences of "year [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later it seemed reasonable to identify the ghost train with nearby trains on well concealed tracks linking Dalton-in-Furness with Askam-in-Furness and Barrow-in-Furness respectively , but this explanation did not entirely remove the doubts and fears experienced even in retrospect . |
| 2 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 3 | Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides , then moving pictures when they came into being . |
| 4 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 5 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 6 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 7 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 8 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 9 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 10 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 11 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 12 | Its members organized aid for the Republican government while its leaders felt unable to do so until the following year when it became clear that neither Germany nor Italy had the slightest intention of discouraging aid to Franco . |
| 13 | Airtours is expected to reflect an improved climate for the holiday business this year when it publishes first half figures on June 28 . |