Example sentences of "it was [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you ‘ Small Town Ireland ’ for showing that bigotry towards people who choose to be different in , either sexual inclination or otherwise , is still alive and kicking in your bastion of the caring Catholic Church today , as it was thirty years ago . |
| 2 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 3 | Well , it was thirty years ago ; |
| 4 | This aspect of a head 's management is better understood now than it was thirty years ago . |
| 5 | And today it 's as hard to believe it happened as it was thirty years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 7 | You mentioned er , earlier about yo , the fact that you were surprised that it was fifteen year olds , and that was quite young |
| 8 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 9 | The motion was moved by the Rev Canon John Dale ( Worcester ) who said it was five years since the request for legislation on women priests was made . |
| 10 | It was five years , and thirteen full years after the passing of the Act , before the same opportunity could be extended to the girls . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 12 | It was five years before the roofleaf became plentiful again . |
| 13 | While the consultant 's review shows that all countries are planning to increase their investment in these competitive edge systems over the next five years , the UK 's present level of spending ( as a percentage of the total ) is behind that in the US and Japan , as it was five years ago . |
| 14 | This month 's increase in the numbers unemployed for a year or more is certainly extremely unwelcome , but the long-term unemployment level is about half what it was five years ago and long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds is also half that level . |
| 15 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 16 | It was five years ago but I believe his was he sounded fairly young I 'd say about in his twenties . |
| 17 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 18 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 19 | Sharing is even more out of step with materialistic white Australia today than it was 200 years ago . |
| 20 | It was 8 years before a new bridge was completed beside the remains of the old , the stumps of which can still be seen . |
| 21 | ‘ Anything she had , I had too , and it was thirteen years younger , and readily available to my husband as , when , and how he liked to use it . |
| 22 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 23 | As I approached Gateshead Hall , I realized it was nine years since I had left it . |
| 24 | It 's a fundamental right and it 's as important now as it was nine years ago . |
| 25 | I think it was nine years ago . |
| 26 | It was seventeen years after President Kennedy 's assassination , twelve years since Bobby 's , but the idea was so powerful nobody turned to look at the shattered window or the stunned lad . |
| 27 | The seed was sown in Paris but it was two years later , in Turin , when the first production car , the Dino 206GT , was introduced . |
| 28 | It was two years ago in Lanzarote that Hall received another knee injury when he looked certain to claim the flanker place — eventually taken by Teague — for England 's 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 29 | ‘ It was two years ago , and is now , to produce non-inflationary growth in this country and to put people back into profit , back into jobs and back into prosperity in this country . |
| 30 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |