Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , it has about 550,000 motor policies in force ; last year , in terms of written premiums , it wrote £84m , and this year it is looking at £150m-plus . |
| 2 | It has only four combat aircraft — armed maritime reconnaissance aircraft — and no armed helicopters . |
| 3 | Roddy Greig , Manager , Transport and Messenger Services , said , ‘ It takes only seven plastic cups to produce enough material to manufacture a 12-inch ruler . |
| 4 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 5 | It means about 1,700 YHA members raising an average of £60 to plant an acre of trees . |
| 6 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 7 | It does over 2,000 input-output operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says ; it costs $170,000 with 28.8Gb disk . |
| 8 | It does over 2,000 input operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says . |
| 9 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 10 | It brings together five brand leaders : White Horse — the leading standard Scotch whisky , IW Harper — the leader in the dynamic bourbon category ( the fastest growing sector in the Japanese liquor market ) , Hennessy Cognac and Moët et Chandon Champagne — leaders in their respective categories , and Tanqueray Gin — the leading premium gin . |