Example sentences of "it [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It all began forty-four years ago . |
2 | It all began 40 years ago when David was 18 and his father started him off farming at Mowbray House . |
3 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
4 | The company is called Cromemco , after the dormitory , Crothers Memorial , where it all started six years ago . |
5 | He said : ‘ The trouble is that when it all started 100 years ago no-one envisaged just how popular rock climbing would become . |
6 | It all started several years ago when Matthew was commissioned to produce a graphics pattern for the film processing industry . |
7 | It all started 2 years ago last October . |
8 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
9 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
10 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
11 | Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes . |
12 | It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star . |