Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] [noun pl] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum includes a library and archives documenting the reign of the Orléans-Bragança family ; it receives 300,000 visitors a year and plays a key role in the artistic and cultural life of Brazil . |
| 2 | It flies eight times a day from Gondar , carrying 1.8 tonnes of grain every trip . |
| 3 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 4 | Thus the market is now a money-loser : it needs 47,000 contracts a day to break even , but manages barely 30,000 . |
| 5 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |
| 6 | It has ten times the luminosity of the Sun , and is pure white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 7 | Right , you 've got a garden hose running off your mains as well using , say , twe I do n't know how much it uses twenty gallons a minute , something like that . |
| 8 | I had a what 's it today , from , something about the over fifties you see , so , cos they found it cost , it cost , it costs eight pounds a year to join you see , you know , you know , eh , pay on , so I 've joined it , I want to see what they 've got to say you know , you get , we get a lot of things you know |
| 9 | Mind you , if it costs three pounds a head to get in you 'll probably not want to go . |
| 10 | It costs 36 pounds a ton to take waste to a landfill site . |
| 11 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 12 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 13 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 14 | West Midlands police inspector Vince Dean said : ‘ It took 20 officers an hour to bring the situation under control . |
| 15 | And what a garden it is ; overflowing with such an abundance of plants , it attracts 2,000 visitors a year under the National Gardens Scheme . |
| 16 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 17 | From a staff of three the company has grown to 50 ; it publishes 400 titles a year ( 60 in the first year ) . |