Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job .
2 We knew it would happen one day . ’
3 Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day .
4 and I thought it would cost ten pound .
5 I thought it might take two years of training . ’
6 It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion .
7 You said it might make two sheets .
8 The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents .
9 But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs .
10 Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift .
11 London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign .
12 I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days .
13 Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies .
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