Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [num] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 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 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 9 | Local people claimed that dust blown from the drying tailings pond ( though lake would be a more accurate description , as it covered 148 acres ) left after the mine closed was harming human and animal health in the area . |