Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 2 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 3 | ‘ It happened again this year , though we won 4– 3 on penalties which gave us our fourth win of the series . ’ |
| 4 | It happened exactly 10 years ago to the day . |
| 5 | The last one — it happened only last year — was particularly nasty . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It opened only last year , so is still gleamingly new . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
| 10 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It started late last year with two critically acclaimed gigs in London . |
| 13 | It started almost 70 years ago in 1923 when John Moores sank £50 into a part-time football-pools venture . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I suggest after we get the bill else it 'll it went up last year |
| 16 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 17 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 18 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 19 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 20 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 21 | It took almost fifty years to deflect this falsification on to causes other than Newton 's theory . |
| 22 | It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat . |
| 23 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 24 | It took almost twenty years to launch a new attempt to embody in formal texts some of humanity 's yearnings for effective restrictions on war . |
| 25 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 26 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 27 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 28 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 29 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 30 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |