Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
2 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
3 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
4 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
5 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |