Example sentences of "[conj] that it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 2 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 3 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 4 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 5 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 6 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |