Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 2 | The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 3 | Well yes , but it only represents two percent of G D P in this country it 's , it 's insignificant . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 5 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 6 | The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year . |
| 7 | ‘ But it only has 4 grams of fat , ’ came the smart reply . |
| 8 | Except if you got computer tables , it just seats one computer on it , do n't forget we have |
| 9 | In the Far East it already has two partners in the shape of Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd and presently state-owned Singapore Telecom , and the trio say they will spend over $100m over the next few years on WorldPartners . |
| 10 | It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . |
| 11 | It usually sells 10 barrels of beer a weekend . |
| 12 | It usually includes three items from the Commons and one from the Lords , with at least one interview or discussion . |
| 13 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 14 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 15 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 16 | It once owned 1,000 acres in what was then Ceylon , where it created plantations to process palm oil ( at that time the main raw material in candles ) , and it built an entire village , Bromborough Pool on Merseyside , for employees . |
| 17 | It also offers one way in which feminist psychologists can develop the interdisciplinary connections which interest them : by exploring , in common with other workers across the social sciences and humanities , unconscious significations . |
| 18 | IBM reckons the 970 achieves a SPECmark rating of 100.3 , making IBM the first to produce a RISC system which scores a century on the benchmark , and that it also does 100.9 transactions per second on the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's TPC-A benchmark . |
| 19 | It also has 100 seats on Court which is , so to speak , the Annual General Meeting of the University . |
| 20 | It also has two sets of wheels , one set to guide it on rails and a set of rubber tyres for roads . |
| 21 | It also provides three levels of stock , i.e. raw materials , work in progress and finished goods . |
| 22 | In this sense the picture of the housewife which emerges in the present study not only bears on an understanding of the situation of women in society today ; it also illuminates one face of urban family life . |
| 23 | It also covers 112,000 hectares of coniferous forests pronounced economically " worthless " . |
| 24 | but — unlike IRAS — it also carries 50 kg of slightly warmer liquid hydrogen to provide the bulk of the cooling for the satellite . |
| 25 | It originally ran two pairs of stones . |
| 26 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
| 27 | It originally included nine ministers of state without portfolio , each post corresponding to one of the nine main Lebanese militias . |
| 28 | It now employs 40 people at new offices developed by Liverpool firm Neptune on the Columbus Quay . |
| 29 | Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd claims that it now has 100,000 subscribers for its low-use mobile service , Lifetime ; the cellular company expects to double this number over the next nine months . |
| 30 | The Hong Kong restaurant will be Harry Ramsden 's first takeaway outside Britain , where it now has four sites in Glasgow , Blackpool , Guiseley and Heathrow Airport . |