Example sentences of "it [vb past] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 2 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 5 | It took two years , until 1 November , 1952 , to produce Teller 's first thermo-nuclear explosion . |
| 6 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 7 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 8 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 9 | It took two years of ‘ giving of their best ’ for the Banks to recognise and negotiate with the Association . |
| 10 | It took two years . |
| 11 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
| 12 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 15 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 16 | It closed two years ago and is now rundown and overgrown . |
| 17 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |