Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] it was " in BNC.

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1 For those who had criticized the flawed economics of the nuclear protagonists ' case for so long it was the beginning of their justification .
2 I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone .
3 I just felt that journalistic — well , editorial licence would mean that that would get chopped about anyway so it was just a waste of time to rewrite it .
4 They had n't got it it was n't , I mean you know to us it was qu , a cheap mortgage but sort of up there it was probably , you know sort of
5 Although the name Shaw has not arisen before this date , from here onwards it was never to be far from the Lakeland milling scene .
6 Indeed it would appear that until quite recently it was rather unusual for the word " family " to mean simply the nuclear family of biological parents and children .
7 Until quite recently it was considered that it was the crust that attained equilibrium with respect to the mantle , but it is now known that isostatic adjustments also involve the rigid mantle forming the lower part of the lithosphere .
8 Until very recently it was conspicuous that the secretariats and standards committees were dominated by Germans who fought to have German standards , which are often the strictest in the world , adopted as definitive EC standards .
9 Until very recently it was commonly thought to be a peculiar anomaly of the Transfer Regulations that reg 7 specifically excludes from the statutory novation the rights of employees in respect of occupational pension schemes .
10 They 've shown opposition to the introduction of L M S right from the start and put every obstacle possible in the way of its success , and its implementation , and yet there they were congratulating themselves on how well it was working .
11 Anyway I lay there , in a mood of quiet celebration , for however long it was , until the evil hour — and the orderlies .
12 We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify .
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