Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 2 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 3 | Trying to out-do the star-studded cast it assembled for last year 's Object World San Francisco , the Object Management Group has come up with Steve Jobs , NeXT Computer Inc chief executive ; Lee Reiswig , IBM Corp Personal Software Division president ; John Edwards , Novell Inc executive vice president ; Bud Tribble , NeXT co-founder and SunSoft Inc vice president User Systems ; Representative Edward Markey , chairman , the US House Telecommunication & Finance Committee ; Bo Hedfors , L M Ericsson Telefon AB chief technology officer ; Kurt Fischer , Pentagon director , Department of Defense Information and Elaine Bond , Chase Manhattan Bank vice-president . |
| 4 | Some of its expansion plans backfired , including a subsidiary set up to recruit minorities — women and non-Americans — which was perhaps too far ahead of its time ; it folded after four years , having made heavy losses . |
| 5 | It resulted in last year 's decision to close the European exploration headquarters in Glasgow with the transfer of key personnel to work from the main North Sea operational base in Aberdeen , a process which should be completed by the end of this year . |
| 6 | And yet it felt like four years . |
| 7 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 8 | The Jewish faith was affected by liberalizing tendencies , but the most important development it fostered during these years was not theological but political . |
| 9 | You 'll have to stump up at least £2,500 for the bond and leave it invested for five years . |
| 10 | The latest opinion polls are predicting that the National Front will get between 10 and 12 per cent of the vote — down both from the 14 per cent it won in last year 's regional elections and from Mr Le Pen 's own record score of 14.4 per cent in the 1988 presidential elections . |
| 11 | On the other hand , however much it might be in demand , Indian patronage was never plentiful , for it fluctuated from one year to the next in accordance with Indian needs rather than the wishes of the Scottish politician . |
| 12 | It ran for 6 years in London 's West End and is still being performed professionally . |
| 13 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 14 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |