Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [num] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process .
2 I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs .
3 The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay .
4 It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook .
5 , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd .
6 Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ?
7 No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ?
8 But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ?
9 I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across .
10 The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year .
11 Well the other one that had it done four times said oh , I 'm on my own now with the little boy , so she was
12 I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ?
13 Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation .
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