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 | 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 . |
8 | It needed only one irascible minister to take umbrage at some fancied slight or misdemeanour for there to be trouble . |
9 | When he took over ICI Fibres it employed around twenty-seven thousand people in Europe . |
10 | The initiative covered 28 district health authorities in England and 28 local authorities It covered about 40 voluntary agencies and more than 50 hospitals . |
11 | In 1990 , it imported over 900,000 cubic metres of tropical timber , and nearly eight million finished tropical timber products . |
12 | It had just one redeeming feature . |
13 | and when I looked it up it had about six other words to go with it . |
14 | Because when we took over this room it had actually two extra floors in , one where you see the joists and one higher up . |
15 | 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 . |