Example sentences of "how [adv] it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we look at the English writing system we see how badly it fits the spoken language . |
| 2 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 3 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 4 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 5 | Local Management of Schools must be judged on how far it enables the whole education service to respond to the needs of all pupils in the locality . |
| 6 | This approach involves some down-grading of the Directive 's purpose of facilitating the transfer of businesses , but it is not clear how far it increases the real , as opposed to the formal , freedom of action of employees . |