Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 3 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 4 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 5 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 6 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 7 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 8 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 9 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 10 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 11 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 12 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 13 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 14 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 15 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 16 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 17 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 18 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 19 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 20 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 21 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 23 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 24 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 26 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 27 | You were late getting in your order for the film ( though you swear the office forgot to send it on ) so on the appointed day , when it is n't there , you have to cobble something else together — and then show the film , when it arrives four weeks later , in the middle of a block of work to which it does not relate . |
| 28 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 29 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 30 | The incentive to settle any claim exists insofar as it takes one file more off the solicitor 's desk and from the client 's point of view , gives him his damages ( or a proportion thereof ) sooner than would be the case if he requires to proceed to Proof . |