Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
2 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
3 | But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none . |
4 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
5 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
6 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
7 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
8 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
9 | Its current revenue budget is £317 million gross and it has 15,000 staff of which 8,000 are teachers . |
10 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |
11 | And if it means fifty percent of whatever we get in capital receipts going to pay off our debts , it 's a worthwhile attitude , and I think we ought to take our debts responsible . |
12 | cos it has two bands of rib |
13 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
14 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
15 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
16 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
17 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
18 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
19 | But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none . |
20 | East Allegheny displays the most glaring disparity as , whilst it contains one quarter of all North Side dwellings , total investment represents around one eighth of all North Side loans made . |
21 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
22 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
23 | Sovereign can be adapted according to customer needs and there are now 80 staff on the Sage Hotline to offer support — though it reckons three quarters of the 2,500 daily calls it receives relate to business rather than technical problems ! |
24 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
25 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |