Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 A fuel tank was shaped into a boat so that when empty it gave 600lb buoyancy in the event of ditching .
2 ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson .
3 Between 1973 and 1985 it spent £25 million pounds on a process to remove about 95 per cent of the mercury from its runcorn effluents , which has an annual operating cost of £1.5 million .
4 Compared to a Sun Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb NFS writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds .
5 Compared to a Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb Network File System writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds .
6 In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory .
7 Take China : in 1984 it imported $300 million worth of components to make 120,000 computers .
8 In 1976 it spent £24 million on renewing its railways and structures — £48 million at today 's prices .
9 In 1981 it spent £252 million .
10 Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake .
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12 In 1928 it cost £25 per gram , but by 1974 it was as low as £40 per kilogram .
13 In 1966 it received $130 million , of which 71 per cent was in military assistance , more in fact than the cumulative total of military assistance from 1948 .
14 It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal .
15 In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany .
16 In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP .
17 In 1965 it received $71 million , of which 20 per cent was for military use .
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