Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
3 | In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 . |
4 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
7 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
8 | 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 . |