Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 2 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
| 4 | Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money . |
| 5 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 6 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |
| 7 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 8 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 9 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 10 | The first record of the Works ' involvement in war-work is that of 1855 , when it supplied two locomotives for the Army on the Balaclava Railway in the Crimea . |
| 11 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 12 | to where it evaporates one step from the bottom , |
| 13 | At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers . |
| 14 | 8 The total timing appears to reflect the use of the shorter versions of those movements where such exist , adding up to 30 ‘ bonnes minutes ’ , i.e. it includes two timings of ‘ bonnes minutes ’ and one of ‘ petites minutes , matching well the inscription ‘ une bonne demi-heure ’ ( See also note 12 . ) |