Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night a close friend said : ‘ He 's really chuffed , it seals a great year for him . |
| 2 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 3 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 4 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 5 | It opens a few years after the final English conquest of Wales in 1282/3 ; it closes with the outbreak of the last great Welsh revolt . |
| 6 | It reflects a successful year for Lyle Carpets . |
| 7 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 8 | He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year . |
| 9 | Though he found the new car handled very well , it did n't immediately have the success it might have had in F1 , partly because Jackie missed a number of races after his Spa accident ; it improved the following year with a Cosworth engine , but by then he was already thinking of what his next move in F1 would be . |
| 10 | ‘ Phoenixa ’ is EMI 's culling from the old Pye Nixa catalogue , which it acquired a few years ago and launched with a contribution from each record sold to the environmental music charity ‘ Music for the World ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It took a few years before one saw that the contact with , and knowledge of , industry , the dialogue , needed to be restored . ’ |
| 12 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 13 | Ideal Home makes the perfect gift — and it lasts a whole year through . |
| 14 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 15 | The Working Men 's College says today , as it said a hundred years ago : ‘ We seek no greater good than education ; we scorn to justify it save by itself . ’ |
| 16 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 17 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 18 | It closed a few years ago , they could n't knock it down because it was meant to be a prime example of nineteen thirties architecture . |
| 19 | It was one of the few remaining to keep an old cinema organ until it closed a few years ago . |
| 20 | But after death , the amount of radiocarbon decreases at a fixed rate : it halves every 5730 years . |