Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
2 | It has developed two types of condition . |
3 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
4 | Since its foundation it has issued 91 volumes of parish registers , 54 volumes of heraldic visitations and 65 drawn from other sources . |
5 | For Training Officer , Sandra Brockman , it has meant 18 months of hard work compiling the recipe cards . |
6 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
7 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
8 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
9 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
10 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
11 | It had detected 1,190 cases of fraud in 1991 , costing a total of ECU282,000,000 , of which ECU137,000,000 related to the farm subsidy budget and ECU90,000,000 to customs and agricultural duty fraud . |
12 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
13 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
14 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |
15 | It 's got 100 watts of wellie . |
16 | Yeah it 's got three chest of drawers at the end bit |