Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 6 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |