Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 2 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 3 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 4 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 5 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 6 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 7 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah , yeah , the thing was , because it left about fifteen minutes later , at a quarter past eight , there was so much difference in traffic , |
| 9 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 10 | THREE and a half thousand people applied to Staffordshire Fire Service after it advertised just 24 vacancies . |
| 11 | After some discussion on back-dating , the formula was accepted though it had only six months to live . |
| 12 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 13 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 14 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |
| 15 | He was surprised at its strength as it curled sic three inch long body around his index finger , and squeezed . |
| 16 | For it came barely three months before Israel 's general election , in which the fate of the territories was the central issue . |