Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes back 50 years . |
| 2 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 3 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
| 4 | because it 's only by that way that if , if he 's gon na need the grommets or something in his ear then he really needs to get it sorted out this year . |
| 5 | If it 's gon na plague him and give him trouble let's get it sorted out this year , even if it means that he has a little bit of temporary deafness for a little while , you know ? |
| 6 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 7 | You get a pension of course but it depends how many years |
| 8 | If it happens again next year with new plants , spray them with something like Benlate + Activex 2 . |
| 9 | Such negative marketing does more harm than good to our credibility , and if it happens again next year , we will not attend . |
| 10 | ‘ It happened again this year , though we won 4– 3 on penalties which gave us our fourth win of the series . ’ |
| 11 | It happened exactly 10 years ago to the day . |
| 12 | The last one — it happened only last year — was particularly nasty . |
| 13 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 14 | It opened only last year , so is still gleamingly new . |
| 15 | Despite hopes that Sun would think up something warm and friendly to call them , the things have been dubbed Sparcstation 10s — small improvement over the Sparcstation 3s they might have been — in recognition of Sun 's tenth birthday , which it celebrated earlier this year . |
| 16 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
| 17 | The beef is tender and full of flavour and , although the breed grows more slowly than the big continental animals , the deficit is adequately compensated for by much cheaper production costs in terms of food and housing ( it stays out all year round ) . |
| 18 | It takes approximately four years in the British climate for a fish to attain that length ( and equivalent weight of about 1lb 4oz ) . |
| 19 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 20 | The nearest star , called Proxima Centauri , is found to be about four light-years away ( the light from it takes about four years to reach Earth ) , or about twenty-three million million miles . |
| 21 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
| 22 | It takes about 30 years from planting for a tree to grow enough bark to be harvested . |
| 23 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
| 24 | ( Compare X , Y and Z in fig i ) — In some the progression is very rapid while in others it takes very many years and may only be triggered by an acute personal crisis such as retirement or when the children leave home ( the " empty nest syndrome " ) . |
| 25 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 26 | Derives its name from the central Persian village where it evolved over 200 years ago , and is a more delicate and sensuous variation of the mina-khani composition . |
| 27 | NCR says it will develop applications on top of it starting later this year . |
| 28 | It started late last year with two critically acclaimed gigs in London . |
| 29 | It started almost 70 years ago in 1923 when John Moores sank £50 into a part-time football-pools venture . |
| 30 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc said it will shortly start shipping the Cray S-MP system , the first in a planned series of Sparc-based servers from Cray Research Superservers Inc , the subsidiary it formed around the Floating Point Systems Inc assets it acquired late last year . |