Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since launching it in the late 1980s , Microsoft has sold over 25m copies . |
| 2 | This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area . |
| 3 | What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions ? |
| 4 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 5 | Hong Kong has transformed the regions surrounding it in the past five or six years . |
| 6 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 7 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 8 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 9 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 10 | ‘ Boyz N The Hood ’ has grossed over $50 million ( and still counting ) at the American box office , putting it on the top ten releases of the summer . |
| 11 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 12 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 13 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |