Example sentences of "it [verb] the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 2 | The Convention eventually came into force in September 1953 , when it received the necessary 10 ratifications . |
| 3 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 4 | Southern African countries , including Zimbabwe , Botswana and South Africa , will fight any ban , and , if it achieves the required two-thirds majority , have declared they will register a CITES ‘ reservation ’ to allow elephant tusk sales to continue . |
| 5 | The ‘ 48-Lite ’ series of desktop machines comes with a colour screen and is aimed at the business market and it includes the new 78 MIPS , 27SPECint92 EWS4800/110LT which comes with NEC 's own 1,024 by 768 pixel colour thin film liquid crystal diode screen and is priced in the base configuration at $12,272 and the similarly-rated EWS4800/310 , which is the lowest priced Japanese version of System V.4.2 on a desktop RISC workstation , the diskless version being priced at $5,272 and the stand-alone configuration selling for $6,618 . |
| 6 | The ‘ 48-Lite ’ series of desktop machines comes with a colour screen and is aimed at the business market and it includes the new 78 MIPS , 27SPECint92 EWS4800/110LT which comes with NEC 's own 1,024 by 768 pixel colour thin film liquid crystal diode screen and is priced in the base configuration at $12,272 and the similarly-rated EWS4800/310 , which is the lowest priced Japanese version of System V.4.2 on a desktop RISC workstation , the diskless version being priced at $5,272 and the stand-alone configuration selling for $6,618 . |
| 7 | Next in the score comes the Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa ; this is in Q1692 , but there , curiously , it lacks the last four lines of its text : |
| 8 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 9 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 10 | It took the usual twenty minutes , and , when he finally entered the conference hall , the motion in favour of Europe was being moved by Gerry Malone , a personable Scot who was now the MP for Winchester . |
| 11 | It took the original 23 days to earn that much . |
| 12 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 13 | First , it omits the first two years of the Thatcher government 's record , when output fell 3.5 per cent . |
| 14 | One course has no options , it runs the full 20 weeks . |
| 15 | However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m . |
| 16 | Er , you go in their home , it 's black and white , because they refuse , they do n't think it warrants the eighty two pound licence , and I 'm gon na get , er black and white , and er , that 's what I 'm gon na do . |
| 17 | It spans the first 15 years of the disease , from its appearance in the early 1950s to the Japanese government 's official statement that mercury pollution was to blame . |
| 18 | True , it shares the familiar 900 body shape but it 's the new thinking behind the radically different engine that sets it apart . |
| 19 | Just left of Engineers Slabs ( indeed it shares the first 15 metres ) i s Snicker Snack ( E2 5c , 5b ) . |