Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 2 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It took a few years before one saw that the contact with , and knowledge of , industry , the dialogue , needed to be restored . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was one of the few remaining to keep an old cinema organ until it closed a few years ago . |