Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] ago " 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 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 3 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 4 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 5 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 6 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 8 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 9 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 10 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 11 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 12 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 13 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 14 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 15 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 16 | It began two weeks ago with revelations about the tax arrangements of Mr Birt , who was employed as a freelance consultant via his own firm in the £140,000-a-year job . |
| 17 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 18 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 19 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 20 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 21 | It started nine years ago when he got into a dispute on a pathway with a Brahmin and his wife . |
| 22 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 25 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 26 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 27 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 28 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 29 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 30 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |