Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986–87 it produced just seven different products . |
| 2 | The denial was less than helpful to London as it excluded only one specific army unit . |
| 3 | We can date the ‘ oxygen revolution ’ — the time when oxygen became an important gas in the Earth 's atmosphere — fairly precisely : it occurred about 410 million years ago . |
| 4 | Mustafa got Arab engineers up from Tel Aviv to build it and it cost about 700 Palestinian pounds . |
| 5 | It claims some 150,000 Interactive Unix licencees and says it added around 75,000 last year — many , but ‘ not a great percentage ’ were upgrades . |
| 6 | It claims some 150,000 Interactive Unix licensees and says it added around 75,000 last year — many , but ‘ not a great percentage ’ were upgrades . |
| 7 | The truth was revealed only by chance , when a journalist for the US magazine Sports Illustrated happened to be aboard a boat when it hauled up seven dead porpoises , caught in a single set . |
| 8 | As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction . |
| 9 | It needed only one irascible minister to take umbrage at some fancied slight or misdemeanour for there to be trouble . |
| 10 | When he took over ICI Fibres it employed around twenty-seven thousand people in Europe . |
| 11 | The initiative covered 28 district health authorities in England and 28 local authorities It covered about 40 voluntary agencies and more than 50 hospitals . |
| 12 | It took over two hundred years to complete . |
| 13 | It took over 800 individual dyeings to complete the programme , changing the proportions until exactly the right colour was achieved . |
| 14 | In 1990 , it imported over 900,000 cubic metres of tropical timber , and nearly eight million finished tropical timber products . |
| 15 | It had just one redeeming feature . |
| 16 | and when I looked it up it had about six other words to go with it . |
| 17 | Because when we took over this room it had actually two extra floors in , one where you see the joists and one higher up . |
| 18 | It closed up thirty four point five at three thousand and six point one |
| 19 | In a nutshell the approved structure plan seriously underestimated the employment needs of the district , and it allocated only forty six hectare for a fifteen year period . |