Example sentences of "[num] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 2 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 5 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 6 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 7 | In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 . |
| 8 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 11 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 12 | After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) . |
| 13 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 14 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |