Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skin of an otter , in common with that of all mammals , contains a substance known as L-serine , and fish are so acutely sensitive to this chemical that they can sense it diluted one thousand million times . |
| 2 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 3 | By the summer of 1992 , when the last count was made , it owned 19,056 works . |
| 4 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 5 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 6 | It got 23 seats . |
| 7 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
| 8 | It revealed 10,000 chemical bombs , as well as 50 Scud missiles , including at least 30 with chemical warheads for long-range missiles . |
| 9 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 10 | Mean orocaecal transit time of the test meal containing lactulose , assessed by hydrogen breath analysis was similar in the two patients groups : in patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy it averaged 170 ( 19 ) minutes and in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy 138 ( 19 ) minutes . |
| 11 | Mean colonic transit time was 35.4 ( 4.7 ) hours in patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , being much shorter ( p<0.02 ) than in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in whom it averaged 53.8 ( 5.5 ) hours . |
| 12 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
| 13 | Thereafter , it averaged 4.85 per cent until 1979 when the seven years of the NATO 3 per cent annual increases in Defence spending began to take effect . |
| 14 | This raised the obvious question of why , if the money supply was expanding so rapidly ( it averaged 12 per cent p.a. 1981–87 ) , inflation was not running at 9 per cent or more . |
| 15 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |
| 16 | It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved . |
| 17 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 18 | It read 11:14 , and counted down continuously . |
| 19 | It read fifty one and a quarter pounds . |
| 20 | As I eased down I glanced over at the clock ; it read 10.01 . |
| 21 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 22 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 23 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 24 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 25 | Along with Bologna , Oxford and Paris , it became one of the great centres of medieval scholarship , attracting students from all over Europe . |
| 26 | It became one of the most successful in the district and in 1920 was amalgamated with Hunt , Winterbotham , Strachan & Co . |
| 27 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 28 | It became one of the best known ‘ psychotogenic ’ drugs . |
| 29 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 30 | It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts . |