Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
| 2 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 3 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 4 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 5 | With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago . |
| 6 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 7 | At the moment it costs around one pound twenty a pint . |
| 8 | It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing . |
| 9 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 10 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 11 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 12 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 13 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 14 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 15 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 16 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 17 | And in the end it offers not one way , as the ideologue or the mystic would claim , but rather an acceptance that diversity is forever a fact of life . |
| 18 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 19 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |
| 20 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 21 | As a guideline it takes approximately 40 minutes for four people to play 1 game . |