Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [num] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills .
2 Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks .
3 By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled .
4 Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join .
5 In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living .
6 By the 1880s it had three main departments of this kind : Eastern , Western and American ( the last also covering China , Japan and Siam ) .
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