Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
| 2 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 4 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 5 | She reported that she was sure she would be able to prove something , but it needed just one operation , with more money . |