Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [det] year " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The worrying aspect is that it gets worse each year . ’
3 But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China .
4 even if it means that this year Yeah yeah .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s .
8 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 .
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