Example sentences of "[prep] [num] it [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 2 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 3 | In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan . |
| 4 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 5 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 6 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 7 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |