Example sentences of "it [vb past] two [noun] [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 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 3 | It finished two months ahead of schedule , a bonus for both motorists and the contractors . |
| 4 | It began two weeks ago with revelations about the tax arrangements of Mr Birt , who was employed as a freelance consultant via his own firm in the £140,000-a-year job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took two people quite a time to take the big sheets down one by one , flap and fold them , holding the corners tight . |
| 7 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 8 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 9 | It saved two others too — the gipsies who had stolen Farmer Yatton 's sacks of potatoes and oats , but who had not stolen the pony . |
| 10 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 11 | It closed two years ago and is now rundown and overgrown . |