Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | From telephone surveys and detailed representative group discussions , the planners developed the programme 's shape — the neighbourhood , story line , characters — and launched it successfully four years later . |
| 2 | It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later . |
| 3 | Following this move of the ducal seat the palazzo fell into disuse and disrepair , a state from which it only recovered when the Spanish governors took it over many years later . |
| 4 | Those ‘ great ’ butlers like Mr Marshall who have it , I am sure , acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience . |
| 5 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |
| 6 | Not only will everyone then understand why it has been arrived at , they will also be able to address and/or review it over subsequent years . |
| 7 | Nigel had been a very heavy smoker but had given it up eight years earlier , as had I. |
| 8 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 9 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 10 | It is true that the Conservative party got it wrong 20 years ago when the belief in the two-tier system for local authorities was fashionable and won the day . |
| 11 | So why did he not sort it out three years ago ? |
| 12 | Did it about five years ago |
| 13 | And I started it about fifteen years later ! |
| 14 | ‘ I bought it about two years ago . |
| 15 | How perceptive he is , but did n't he know that the BBC had already produced it about two years ago with Frank Finlay and Miriam Karlin ? |
| 16 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 17 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 18 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 19 | Ooh I 've , yeah , I 've been doing it about three years . |
| 20 | We got a big one where erm , sort of , it 's really cold , and so we keep erm , the longest dates and everything erm , that we do n't need immediately , and then , we got the fridge/freezer , we got the freezer in the stock-room , which is ours , we we just bought it , wh , my parents bought it about three years ago , for ourselves . |
| 21 | I only got it about 6 years ago , but the badge is the smiley or ‘ penis ’ ( smiley penis ! ? ! ) . |
| 22 | The manufacturer who quickly and generously replaced the kit was able to identify it as three years old , and quite useless . |
| 23 | Is it really 14 years ago that Wensley Haydon-Baillie recovered that well publicised clutch of eight Spitfires form the Indian sub-continent ? |
| 24 | Was it really five years ago ? |
| 25 | Is it really 40 years since Spencer Tracey played Elizabeth Taylor 's father ? |
| 26 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 27 | But for some people the austerity period which followed brought it even more years of deprivation and hardship than those of the war . |
| 28 | ‘ My stepfather put it there two years ago . |
| 29 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 30 | The Dutch government is introducing tax incentives for companies which buy electric vehicles : they will be allowed to depreciate them faster than conventional vehicles , setting the entire cost against tax in the first year rather than spreading it over five years . |