Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adj] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available . |
| 2 | The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) . |
| 3 | It uses about twenty pence during night , not forty . |
| 4 | It concerns yet another pair of mismatched cops , with the disposable novelty of one of them being a dog , which tends to restrict verbal sparring , along with the mangy dialogue and Belushi 's lack of manic spin . |
| 5 | Perhaps I missed it , it had about twelve people in it . |
| 6 | At that time , Lincolnshire was the second largest county in England but it was thirteenth in terms of population ; it had only 208,557 people in 1801 and 407,222 fifty years later . |