Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] that it " in BNC.

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1 The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 .
2 Constanze said many years later that it was an accurate portrayal of her anguish .
3 How could a birthmark , even tawny , convince the onlookers in the piazza two thousand years ago that it was gold , the metal of the gods , the stuff of ichor which flows in their ivory veins ?
4 restrict the length of any fund raising project to less than one year so that it is completed within the period of office of a committee ;
5 Unlike the Kerry , the Dexter is an increasingly popular breed ; it has been well promoted by its breed society in recent years so that it now hardly qualifies as a rare breed .
6 The Methodist Church , which owned the hall , decided four years ago that it was no longer financially feasible to keep it running .
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