Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has this year as well I think . |
| 2 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 3 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 4 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 5 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 6 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 7 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 8 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 9 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 10 | It began this year when Dad made those wooden cut-out figures , the snowman and the presents . |
| 11 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 12 | It seems this year 's surprise chart hit has prompted a renewed interest in the didgeridoo . |
| 13 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 16 | Hereforshire Health Authority needs to make savings of six hundred thousand pounds which it overspent this year . |
| 17 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 18 | Third , it expresses each year 's results in terms of constant purchasing power , not in current money . |
| 19 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 20 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 21 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 22 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 23 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 24 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 25 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 26 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 27 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 28 | It took several years to acknowledge that all this higher searching was based on my father 's money . |
| 29 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 30 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |