Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 2 | Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars . |
| 3 | Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest . |
| 4 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 5 | Thurcroft colliery in my constituency is now threatened with closure because of a short-term geological problem , yet it has 20 million tonnes of workable low-sulphur reserves . |
| 6 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 7 | Those were the days , when it started several hundred years ago , when sensationalism was not the habit of the press . |
| 8 | The engine was originally installed at Godwins Engineering Works at Quenington in Gloucestershire where it drove some 400 yards ( 369 metres ) of line shafting , powering the entire factory . |
| 9 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |