Example sentences of "year [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same table also shows that the proportion of women qualifying for unemployment benefit increased over the years so that it surpassed that of men . |
| 2 | For example , if a decision is made to build a factory , it might be years before the building is erected , equipped and in operation , and years more before it earns sufficient profits to pay back the investment . |
| 3 | And I 've come back years later and it 's had the same effect on me . ’ |
| 4 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 5 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 6 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 7 | There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked . |
| 8 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 9 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 10 | Well , we recognized that two three years ago but it has n't been filled yet |
| 11 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 12 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 13 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 14 | The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence . |
| 15 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 16 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 17 | De Burgh wrote Lady in Red for Diane six years ago and it became a No 1 across the world . |
| 18 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 19 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 20 | I 've also still got my old Gibson Melody Maker ; I put humbuckers in it many years ago and it 's got a really warm , big sound . |
| 21 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |
| 22 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 23 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 24 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals was only formed two years ago and it has not yet become familiar within the business , let alone a household name . |
| 25 | He was delivered in a birthing pool five years ago and it convinced his mother in favour of a repeat experience . |
| 26 | Well , er , I became er , unhappy with the communist party many years ago because it did n't follow the philosophical teaching on which works , the erm , erm , dialectical materialism . |
| 27 | If Telecom really wanted to get a cost-effective solution to a 60,000 square foot head office requirement , it could simply have bought Montrose House on Adelaide Road two years earlier than it bought the Ballsbridge site . |
| 28 | It was a face that Joseph and Flavia Sherman would have recognized instantly from their encounter with the Annamese journalist in the palace of Khai Dinh at Tet exactly five years earlier because it had changed little , if at all , in the interval of time . |
| 29 | Whilst we will review after the initial 3 months period I should be grateful if we take the arrangement up until the end of the calendar year so that it continues to operate whilst being reviewed . |
| 30 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |