Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
2 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
3 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
4 | In the following month it distributed two million leaflets on the Munich crisis , following this up in December with ten million leaflets on the Spanish Civil War . |
5 | but for us lot it made four nice medium size ones |
6 | That was the way it looked four hundred feet up . |
7 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
8 | Just last year it handled six million pounds worth of claims from churches hit by crime . |
9 | In the last academic year it published 23 major articles , and produced 26 papers in its Discussion Paper series . |
10 | At a glittering prize-giving dinner in Liverpool 's Adelphi Hotel it beat 150 other company journals to win the British Association of Industrial Editors Gold Award for an unprecedented second time . |
11 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |