Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 2 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 3 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 4 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 5 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 6 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 7 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 8 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 9 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 10 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 11 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 12 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 13 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 14 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 15 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 16 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 17 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 18 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 19 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 20 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 21 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 22 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 23 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 24 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 25 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 26 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 27 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 28 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 29 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 30 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |