Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] it seemed " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin .
2 They had become such friends that it seemed unnecessarily unkind of him to stay away .
3 The failure to resolve Germany 's future added to Europe 's economic problems and it seemed that Communists in France and Italy might exploit the consequent social discontent in order to seize power .
4 Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed .
5 There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job .
6 We were in there for eight or nine hours but it seemed like days .
7 Her father was a dealer in second-hand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it .
8 We investigated it for one of our earlier dictionaries as it seemed quite economical on space .
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