Example sentences of "it [vb past] six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 2 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 3 | It measured six inches by four and was three quarters of an inch thick , with thread-bound pages . |
| 4 | It merged six years later with the Scottish Umpire to form Scottish Sport , which appeared twice weekly at 1d. and claimed a circulation of 43,000 . |
| 5 | It landed six inches from my face and before it had stopped quivering in the ground , a red one slapped down next to it . |
| 6 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 7 | It took six hours to make . |
| 8 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 9 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 10 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 11 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 12 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 13 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 14 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 15 | It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it . |
| 16 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 17 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 18 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 19 | Above : It took six men to get the 15′ tank into the house . |
| 20 | It took six men , a lorry with a hydraulic lift , one hundred and fifty feet of tracks , a tray on wheels and four hours to get it there . |
| 21 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 22 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 23 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 24 | Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side . |
| 25 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 26 | It had six bedrooms , which works out at two each , as well as two bathrooms and about eight downstairs rooms . |
| 27 | It lasted six hours and five minutes and included two hours and 20 minutes of decompression ! |
| 28 | The Baker-Aziz meeting was duly held in Geneva on Jan. 9 ; although it lasted six hours , no progress was made . |
| 29 | At least five shots had now been fired from Foster 's Police Positive , and being a revolver it held six rounds . |