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

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1 The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed .
2 The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology .
3 Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built .
4 Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side .
5 Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today .
6 When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress .
7 The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians .
8 When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level .
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