Example sentences of "years [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 . |