Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 2 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 3 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 4 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 5 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 6 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 7 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 8 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 9 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 10 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 11 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 12 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 13 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 14 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 15 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 16 | It merged six years later with the Scottish Umpire to form Scottish Sport , which appeared twice weekly at 1d. and claimed a circulation of 43,000 . |
| 17 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 18 | It started nine years ago when he got into a dispute on a pathway with a Brahmin and his wife . |
| 19 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 20 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 21 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 22 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 23 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 24 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 25 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 26 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 27 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 28 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 29 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 30 | It closed two years ago and is now rundown and overgrown . |