Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
| 2 | How much had the Mani changed since Leigh Fermor , that most distinguished of scholar gypsies , explored it in the late 1950s ? |
| 3 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 4 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 5 | Both could have done with outboard motors , since neither managed it into the top eight . |
| 6 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
| 7 | Unlike Ted , he had risen rapidly up the ranks , was voted Rookie of the Year in 1987 , made it into the Top 16 at the end of '88 , and was tipped to become a challenger for the world title . |
| 8 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 9 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 10 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 11 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 12 | He bought it in the Swinging Sixties and had never worn it . |
| 13 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 14 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 15 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |