Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yakovlev devotes loving attention to the single , insignificant sovkhoz ( state farm ) in the whole area , although it only employed eleven people . |
| 2 | ‘ Greece strongly supports a stronger role for the European Parliament , although it only has 24 seats . |
| 3 | IBM reckons the 970 achieves a SPECmark rating of 100.3 , making IBM the first to produce a RISC system which scores a century on the benchmark , and that it also does 100.9 transactions per second on the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's TPC-A benchmark . |
| 4 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 5 | Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd claims that it now has 100,000 subscribers for its low-use mobile service , Lifetime ; the cellular company expects to double this number over the next nine months . |
| 6 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 8 | THE MOST remarkable thing about Graham Watkins 's Macbeth is that it only has two women . |
| 9 | The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year . |
| 10 | For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane . |
| 11 | It does not show that it always favours one interest — in fact the contrary seems to be true . |
| 12 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 13 | During this time TMAM acquired former Danish Air Force Hunter F.51 E-412 from the BAe cache at Dunsfold and it currently carries 43 Squadron colours . |
| 14 | And it only courses one year 's duration maximum one year . |
| 15 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 16 | The seat can be used in both forward and rear-facing positions and it only needs one hand to fold it down . |
| 17 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |
| 18 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
| 19 | If it just makes ten people change their minds then it is worthwhile . |
| 20 | if it only lasts twelve months |
| 21 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 22 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 23 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 24 | Well yes , but it only represents two percent of G D P in this country it 's , it 's insignificant . |
| 25 | ‘ But it only has 4 grams of fat , ’ came the smart reply . |
| 26 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
| 27 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 28 | She is especially renowned for creating a long silk jersey halter-neck evening dress , which can be worn five different ways and is easy to make because it only has one seam . |
| 29 | She is especially renowned for creating a long silk jersey halter-neck evening dress which can be worn five different ways and is easy to make because it only has one seam . |
| 30 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |