Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 61 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 62 | It started nine years ago when he got into a dispute on a pathway with a Brahmin and his wife . |
| 63 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 64 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 65 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 66 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 67 | Hereforshire Health Authority needs to make savings of six hundred thousand pounds which it overspent this year . |
| 68 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 69 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
| 70 | Third , it expresses each year 's results in terms of constant purchasing power , not in current money . |
| 71 | Tandem Computers Inc , Cupertino is moving its Asian headquarters to Singapore from California later this month , specialising in telecommunications , banking and finance ; it already has a joint software company , Twin-Soft Asia Pte Ltd , with Singapore Computer Systems Ltd which it formed last year , and it is planning to launch a screen-based smart telephone that can access host computers using a telephone handset , a small display , a programmable microprocessor and a modem , in Singapore next month . |
| 72 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 73 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 74 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 75 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 76 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 77 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 78 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 79 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 80 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 81 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 82 | It took nineteen years to complete what was not only a remarkable feat of engineering but also an outstanding example of Francisco Franco 's single-minded pursuit of self-aggrandizement and immortality . |
| 83 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 84 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 85 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 86 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 87 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 88 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 89 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 90 | It took eighteen years to build , every piece of stone used in its construction coming from the quarries in Apedale ( the valley of the Norseman Appi ) . |