Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT BECAME OBVIOUS last year that there was a general lack of interest in aviation in the Staffordshire/south Cheshire area , highlighted by the huge outcry when the local planning authority granted temporary permission for a microlight flying site . |
| 2 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 3 | It seemed one hundred years that those poor people looked up at him — at Gabriel the fraud — and waited for a miracle . |
| 4 | The worrying aspect is that it gets worse each year . ’ |
| 5 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 6 | Those were the days , when it started several hundred years ago , when sensationalism was not the habit of the press . |
| 7 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 8 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 9 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 10 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
| 11 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
| 12 | It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely . |
| 13 | It took another sixty years to achieve this ; Forster 's Education Act was not passed till 1870 . |
| 14 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 15 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |
| 16 | even if it means that this year Yeah yeah . |
| 17 | Though the antarctic ice-cap is estimated to contain 90% of the world 's water , only a tiny fraction of it becomes available each year for living material . |
| 18 | Applications created with the toolkit are fully architecture- and network-independent , are fully interoperable across networks and will integrate with the DME standard when it becomes available next year . |
| 19 | Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c . |
| 20 | It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s . |
| 21 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |
| 22 | Our first difference arose over the Biafran War , which began in July 1967 and in which , by the time it ended some three years later , there had been a civilian death toll alone in Biafra of over two million people . |