Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 2 | In Edinburgh the corporation 's blamed for everything , despite the fact it ceased to exist nearly twenty years ago ! |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 4 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 5 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 6 | American Express said it had received about 100 complaints so far this year from card members who had booked accommodation — only fly-cruises in the Bahamas — some for as little as £99.50 — and who had been unable to board ship . |
| 7 | American Express said it had received about 100 complaints so far this year from card members who had booked accommodation — only fly-cruises in the Bahamas — some for as little as £99.50 — and who had been unable to board ship . |
| 8 | Hamilton Oil revealed yesterday that it had handled almost 5,000 applications already , many arriving before the announcement of the go-ahead for the massive project . |
| 9 | Hamilton Oil revealed yesterday that it had handled almost 5,000 applications already , many arriving before the announcement of the go-ahead for the massive project . |
| 10 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 11 | Morocco countered Polisario 's estimate of 75 Moroccan deaths and 75 wounded with a claim that it had lost only five soldiers in comparison with 37 deaths among the guerrillas . |
| 12 | The Democratic Party won nine of 35 seats in Bangkok ( where it had won only one seat in March ) capturing eight from Palang Dharma , which still managed to win 23 seats in the city . |
| 13 | The Académie Française , that illustrious guardian of the French language , set up by Richelieu in 1635 , last week in effect buried the very reform for which it had voted unanimously nine months earlier . |
| 14 | Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well . |
| 15 | This , together with a piece by Mozart 's rival Salieri , was given in the orangery at the Schönbrunn palace on 7 February : it had taken just two weeks to write . |
| 16 | It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order . |
| 17 | When Stop Hinkley Expansion members had conducted a test run in 1957 to see just how quickly every house within the Hinkley Point evacuation zone could be visited ( as part of a campaign for sirens to be installed ) it had taken over two hours . |
| 18 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 19 | It had taken about twenty seconds . |
| 20 | From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction . |
| 21 | Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes . |
| 22 | Subsequent estimates indicated that it had spilt around 70,000 tons of its cargo . |
| 23 | This was a newish tack ; it had started about two weeks ago . |
| 24 | If it had happened even six months ago , it would have seemed astonishing . |