Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faber 's agreement came into effect on 1st May ; it has appointed two part time merchandisers to support its reps in monitoring an agreed list of 400 Faber titles . |
| 2 | Nynex Corp 's New York Telephone says it has rerouted 2,000 telephone lines from the World Trade Center to tenants ' temporary offices scattered through Manhattan since Friday 's explosion ; it says it has also installed 1,000 new lines and 100 T1 high speed dedicated lines since the emergency . |
| 3 | It has won 63 Pulitzer prizes , more than any other newspaper , but only one of them for local reporting . |
| 4 | Boxtree 's four Thunderbird titles have sold 168,000 copies since last June , it has shifted 228,000 Beverley Hills novels , 310,000 Simpson colouring and activity books , not to mention over 600,000 Hanna Barbera books . |
| 5 | Birmingham University in the UK West Midlands has started Phase Three of its computer network expansion : it has ordered 20 ECS Hubs , 300 adaptor boards and a Network Integration Centre from 3Com Corp , together worth £115,000 ; by the end of Phase Three , it will have around 2,500 connection points to the FDDI network installed for staff and post-graduate students . |
| 6 | Since its foundation it has held nine biennial congresses and one special general meeting in various parts of the United Kingdom , at which papers on various subjects relating to the deaf and dumb have been read and discussed , and resolutions passed . |
| 7 | Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years . |
| 8 | It aims to provide 40,000 training weeks by next April under its innovative and highly successful Training in Employment scheme . |
| 9 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 10 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 11 | It expects to invite 50–75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35–50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese . |
| 12 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 13 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 14 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 15 | It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date . |
| 16 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 17 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
| 18 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 19 | The CD is entitled ‘ A Gershwin Concert ’ ; and , indeed , it does contain two Gershwin items . |
| 20 | An extra 10 hp a side may not be a mind-blowing power increase but it does represent 330,000 foot lbs per minute and , at its increased maximum weight of 3800 lbs , the new model would , with one engine out , climb at 180 ft/min , or almost 300 ft/min at lighter weights . |
| 21 | Fujitsu Ltd is preparing to plunge into the massively parallel processing market with a machine that it claims delivers 300 GFLOPS peak using ‘ only a few hundred processors ’ : on current plans , it will be the first major computer manufacturer to enter the market with its own machine rather than one bought in . |
| 22 | I think it 's got two S S's |
| 23 | It 's got four oxygen atoms and that 's only got two oxygen atoms . |
| 24 | bet it 's got four star pitches |
| 25 | And it 's got three quarter length sleeves . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , it 's got three C L two and that ones got |
| 27 | And it 's got ten funtime activities like a spinning teddy , clicking dog and musical wheel to help an older baby 's eye to hand co-ordination . |
| 28 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |