Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1989 the government said it expected a further 361,000 sales over the next three years . |
| 2 | It goes a steady eighty miles an hour right . |
| 3 | Earlier this year it announced a 100 million dollar expansion of its factory in Scotland . |
| 4 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
| 5 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 6 | It has a massive 90 foot tower from which you can see across Orford and the seashore nearby . |
| 7 | It cost a mere eight pounds a week to rent . |
| 8 | It features a hefty 1200 watt motor , double the power of some basic saws . |
| 9 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 10 | If she could have walked it in five minutes , then the cab should have done it in less , but it seemed a long five minutes before it stopped again and the cab driver opened the door , saying , ‘ Here we are then , lass . ’ |
| 11 | It seems a long five seconds . |
| 12 | It weighs a chunky 2,601 pounds — but the pay-off is a back seat that can seat three in reasonable comfort . |
| 13 | Grown on his allotment in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , it weighs a massive 26 lbs and is more than three feet round . |
| 14 | A hospital has been criticised for the way it treated a seventy nine year old woman who had cancer . |
| 15 | It took a mere two minutes for them to open the scoring through Tracy Fry 's fine solo run , and by the time Helen Bray shot home from the spot with nine minutes remaining , Wimbledon had been reduced to chasing shadows . |
| 16 | It took a healthy five mile walk for Elaine Ruxton and five colleagues from Douglas Reyburn to raise £200 for charity . |
| 17 | It took a daring three man space walk to rescue it . |
| 18 | In a day of shocks her brain had become sluggardly , and it took a full thirty seconds for the import of his words to sink in . |
| 19 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 20 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 21 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 22 | It took a further five days for America 's ‘ quick-reaction force ’ of marines and helicopters to turn up . |
| 23 | It took a further two decades before ‘ the elderly ’ were once more to experience the high profile that they had achieved in the debates of the 1940s and 1950s concerning their position and role in the economy . |
| 24 | It expects a further 29 tonnes on completion of the CEGB/SSEB Magnox programme plus an additional 34 tonnes of plutonium from the existing and committed AGR programme . |
| 25 | In the other it ran a few hundred yards to a high chain-link fence with a locked gate , and then on to another distant cluster of lights , the harbour buildings . |
| 26 | An iron ladder descends this accidental chasm from the nave roof , but it stops a good fifteen feet above the moss-feather-and-shit-covered earth . |