Example sentences of "[noun] [num] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 2 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 3 | In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men . |
| 4 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 5 | From Feb. 4 it heard considerable evidence confirming the existence of a " third force " involving members of the security forces who had provoked township violence . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |