Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj -er] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took a further five days for America 's ‘ quick-reaction force ’ of marines and helicopters to turn up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |