Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 BA has invested £20m of its own money in the venture , of which it owns 31 p.c. , but says that further finance will come from Air Russia 's own resources , such as state loans and leasing .
2 It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young .
3 Earlier this year the NRPB published a ‘ complete description of the radiological impact of the fire ’ in which it considered 41 isotopes released in the fire .
4 It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean .
5 Analyses showed that water contained eight parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen ; on Dalton 's assumption , then , the atom of oxygen weighs eight times as much as that of hydrogen , while on the H 2 O formula favoured by Davy and by us it weighs sixteen times as much .
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