Example sentences of "to make it [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Bearing eloquent witness to the strength of this strategy , NEC 's total computer sales in 1981 surpassed those of Hitachi to make it second only to Fujitsu among Japanese makers . |
2 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
3 | I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff . |
4 | The crucial thing to make it last a reasonable amount of time is to use the length of your premises to the best advantage and have them going to one end and then back , otherwise they may finish surprisingly quickly . |
5 | I 've only ever really and truly fallen in love once and I did n't manage to make it last , so that probably was the person |
6 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
7 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
8 | After all , the purpose of thick engrossment paper was to make it last . |
9 | BRITISH featherweight champion Sean Murphy is out to make it third time lucky when he challenges for the WBO world title next month . |
10 | NAFUTH , runner-up on both his starts to date , looks set to make it third time lucky in the EBF Dunkirk Maiden Stakes ( Division One ) at Doncaster tomorrow . |