Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 2 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 3 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 4 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 5 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 6 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 7 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 8 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 9 | Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English . |
| 10 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |