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

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1 In the time of King Edward it answered for six sulings and now for two and a half , there is arable of seven teams , in demesne , there are three teams and fifteen villians with nine bordari have six teams .
2 I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation .
3 A ham came next ; after some frenzied bidding at the lower prices it climbed to thirteen guineas , then to fourteen where it seemed likely to stay until at the very last moment , a cautious male voice offered fifteen guineas .
4 In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled .
5 This afternoon it poured for two hours solid .
6 In this case , though , when I totalled their length it came to 2,000 words ; and the books editor had asked for 700 .
7 When the case was heard before Worthing magistrates it ended on 15 November with the assault charges being dismissed but Mosley , Joyce , Budd and Mullan were committed to Lewes Assizes on charges of riotous assembly .
8 In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 .
9 Even in the first year , when fewer than a third of Leeds primary schools were involved in PNP , this requirement accounted for 760 teacher-days ; but from year to year , as more and more schools became involved and as roles proliferated , the investment of time increased until in the fourth year it stood at 2,035 teacher-days .
10 Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound .
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