Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 2 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 3 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 4 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |