Example sentences of "it [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She progressed eventually to the title role , playing it 500 times . |
| 2 | Is it eleven years today she |
| 3 | and Lot fourteen is the cabinet now showing , thank you , Lot fourteen , fifty for it fifty pounds anywhere at fifty at fifty pounds fifty at fifty pounds fifty pounds , anywhere at fifty unwanted then at fifty pounds fifty pounds . |
| 4 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 5 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 6 | Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer . |
| 7 | Call it fifty miles . |
| 8 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 9 | KEEGAN 'S GLEE GUNS : Micky Quinn points the way to the Premier League for Newcastle — and the boss also has plenty to celebrate as the Geordies make it eight wins out of eight . |
| 10 | Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder . |
| 11 | One could wish it eight times as long , a great compendium like Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy . |
| 12 | Well it was just that erm erm erm was it eight weeks your hospital appointment ? |
| 13 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 14 | But the SDLP expected to add another seat to its team , giving it eight benches to occupy in the council chamber . |
| 15 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 16 | LUCA CUMANI improved his impressive Brighton record when the strapping Declassified made it 22 winners from 40 runners at the track in five years for the Newmarket trainer . |
| 17 | ‘ I asked the son how he knew how much was stolen and he said he last counted it 12 months ago . ’ |
| 18 | The simple price structure of Parcelforce Standard ensures it is just as cost-effective to send a parcel 300 miles as it is to sent it 30 miles . |
| 19 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 20 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 21 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 22 | You 've got ta write three essays in , is it forty minutes ? |
| 23 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 24 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 25 | After opening firmer , the dollar lost ground on expectations of an imminent easing of monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve but strong demand pushed it 0.80 pfennigs higher at DM1.8925 . |
| 26 | Which the normal one was er er , w I think it 's a five inch brace for the er er it 's five inch sweeper , in other words it 's er about Is it six inches ? |
| 27 | I liked it six hours ago , but will I still ? ’ |
| 28 | That 's it six sets of two . |
| 29 | and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound |
| 30 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |