Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its share of wool exports rose too , though less strikingly , in 1374–75 and 1424–25 the figure was between 40 and 45 per cent , by 1474–75 it exceeded 50 per cent and in 1524–25 it was 66 per cent . |
| 2 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
| 3 | The success of BEFIEX can be judged by the fact that by 1985 it covered 40 per cent of all manufactures , with a significant increase of the net trade generated ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : p. 116 ) . |
| 4 | It was low in numbers a century ago , when the Piedmonts of Italy were being imported for beef and good red milking cows came from Bergamo , but by 1979 it numbered 150,000 and is now a well-established milk and meat breed in France , though almost extinct in Italy , where it is known as the Tarina . |
| 5 | From 2 June 1832–1845 it carried 200,000 to 300,000 passengers per year — more passengers per mile than the Liverpool and Manchester railway . |
| 6 | In 1990/1 it contributed 27 per cent of all tax receipts — not more , it is important to note . |
| 7 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 8 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 9 | Er I have n't unfortunately , no , but I 'm pretty sure it said two hundred pounds a week . |
| 10 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 11 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 12 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 13 | In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills . |
| 14 | In 1981 it launched one of Japan 's most precise assembly robots , capable of inserting objects into 0.5 mm-diameter holes and of performing delicate laser welding . |
| 15 | Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks . |
| 16 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 17 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 18 | For example , in Maputo City total primary enrolment rose 26 per cent between 1984 and 1986 , whereas country-wide it fell 4 per cent . |
| 19 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 20 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 21 | In 1987 it won 27 per cent of the Birzeit student vote , 85 per cent of the Hebron University vote , and over 40 per cent of the vote at al Najah , where the threat of violence between secular and religious students provoked the voluntary closure of the university until feelings had sufficiently abated . |
| 22 | By late 1987 it claimed 3,200 of the 7,000 train driving staff , and was confident enough to launch paralysing one-day strikes in support of its demands . |
| 23 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 24 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |
| 25 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 26 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 27 | In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living . |
| 28 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 29 | In 1563 it killed one in every five Londoners . |
| 30 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |