Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they started eight weeks ago , Thames Water estimate it 's saved 350 million gallons of water . |
| 2 | It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks . |
| 3 | A ticket agency is closing down claiming it 's lost fifty thousand pounds following the last minute cancellation of a concert by the pop star Prince . |
| 4 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 5 | So far it 's collected some 40 exhibitors and they 're the kind of brand names show managers love : DEC , HP , Sun , SCO , USL , UI , Unisys , NCR , Compaq , Univel and MIPS/Silicon Graphics . |
| 6 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
| 7 | Meanwhile , British Gas has announced it 's to cut twelve hundred jobs as part of restructuring the company . |
| 8 | It 's taken nine hundred men just two years to complete the project . |
| 9 | It 's juxtaposing those two things . |
| 10 | In the beginning it had a circulation of two thousand ; by 1930 it was selling nine thousand copies per month at ten cents . |
| 11 | By the end of the decade it was importing 8–9 million barrels per day , or about 30 per cent of OPEC output . |
| 12 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 13 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |