Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth .
2 Traditionally it has two main uses : by the Marxists to describe the type of society which preceded ‘ capitalist ’ society ; by legal historians to describe a particular kind of legal relationship .
3 Its disadvantages are as follows : ( 1 ) If regulatory and common law rules are to operate harmoniously , the former must replicate the latter , or alternatively it posits two independent systems of regulation , one operating in the regulatory context and the other in the ordinary courts .
4 Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest .
5 And then it went five hundred plus .
6 Then it put two Croatian towns , ancient Dubrovnik , on the Adriatic , and Vukovar , a pretty Danube town , under siege ; to punish or reverse Croatia 's secession , said the army .
7 A state is a set of values for all its switches ; so if the BM has N nodes , then it has 2 possible states .
8 Thurcroft colliery in my constituency is now threatened with closure because of a short-term geological problem , yet it has 20 million tonnes of workable low-sulphur reserves .
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