Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they started eight weeks ago , Thames Water estimate it 's saved 350 million gallons of water . |
| 2 | It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks . |
| 3 | A ticket agency is closing down claiming it 's lost fifty thousand pounds following the last minute cancellation of a concert by the pop star Prince . |
| 4 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 5 | So far it 's collected some 40 exhibitors and they 're the kind of brand names show managers love : DEC , HP , Sun , SCO , USL , UI , Unisys , NCR , Compaq , Univel and MIPS/Silicon Graphics . |
| 6 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
| 7 | Meanwhile , British Gas has announced it 's to cut twelve hundred jobs as part of restructuring the company . |
| 8 | It 's taken nine hundred men just two years to complete the project . |
| 9 | It 's juxtaposing those two things . |
| 10 | In the beginning it had a circulation of two thousand ; by 1930 it was selling nine thousand copies per month at ten cents . |
| 11 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 12 | By the end of the decade it was importing 8–9 million barrels per day , or about 30 per cent of OPEC output . |
| 13 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 14 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |