Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Guinea-Bissau stood to gain 600 million dollars — twice its foreign debt — when it agreed to bury 15 million tons of Philadelphia 's municipal ash . |
2 | ‘ It has done forty thousand miles , ’ he was saying . |
3 | When it has to beg 20 m. piastres a month for its existence ? ’ |
4 | Determined not to undermine his DEC marketing team 's present offerings , Goodnight makes big beef about the fact that it has sold some 3,500 versions of SAS in the last three months . |
5 | Jacques Attali , the bank 's president , will tell shareholders how it has spent 621 million Ecus on 20 projects in its first year ranging from a stake in a Czechoslovak chocolate maker to Polish telephones . |
6 | It has published some 28 books on different health issues and produces a quarterly magazine . |
7 | Since then it has opened another nine shops — all in London and planned to have 30 within two years . |
8 | IBM Corp is using the show inter alia to announce that it has equipped all 30 models of its ValuePoint line with multi-media technology , which will be available on a built-to-order basis , using Creative Technologies Inc Soundblaster boards and other third party products : MultiMedia ValuePoints will range in price from $2,100 for an 80486SX model to about $3,500 for a high-end 80486 DX2 system . |
9 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
10 | It has taken some 30 minutes to locate the toilet facilities within the multi-store , multi-tiered , many stairwayed emporium which is GUM . |
11 | " How much will it cost to replace those two beams ? " |
12 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
13 | So if for example a dishonest car dealer said bargain , thirty thousand miles only , when really it had done ninety thousand miles then that would be a criminal offence under the Trade Descriptions Act . |
14 | the trouble was in many ways is the man that booked it had had thirty five years ' experience of removals , he knew all the country you see . |
15 | Army losses were given officially as 178 dead ; the LTTE acknowledged that it had lost some 500 fighters , whereas the government claimed over 2,000 Tigers killed in the battle to Aug. 3 , and a further 500 in " mopping-up operations " in the succeeding days . |
16 | They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are . |
17 | So every one second , it 's gone another ten metres or so . |
18 | It 's done one thousand miles . |
19 | So if it 's done ten thousand miles , we 'd take a tenth of ten thousand , we 'd take a thousand pounds off this . |
20 | Well the new edition 's just come out and it 's in the shops shortly , it 's priced sixty five pounds , and as usual they 've let Radio Oxford have a copy to give away as a prize . |
21 | Well it 's got two two purposes |
22 | Cos it 's got all four sides equal and four ninety degrees . |
23 | It 's got thirty million articles in it , when you can find information , pull out articles relevant to your needs , by looking for authors , looking for words in the text and you can look at the summary of the article very quickly . |
24 | It 's got thirty million articles in it and you can find information , pull out articles relevant to your needs by looking for authors , looking for words in the text , and you can look at the summary of the article very quickly . |