Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And apparently it contains Polydichloromethylinlon-4 , whatever that is . |
| 3 | Then a bit lower down it says eight semi finalists will be selected for a final judging in April . |
| 4 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
| 5 | Perhaps it answers three . |
| 6 | So it says thirty plus now even though she 's sixty four . |
| 7 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 8 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 9 | Malcolm White , who retired as Headmaster at Gillott 's School in 1980 , has revitalised the Junior section in recent years , so much so it has 55 members under 18 ( 53 boys and 2 girls ) . |
| 10 | Ah but th th th there 's a rack and w one goes on and holds the horn post up to the boot while it 's driven , then it comes out and there 's two , one 's half a tooth , so it ensures one or the other 's in , and they work like that . |
| 11 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
| 13 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 14 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 15 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 16 | Considerable ambiguity arises when the appearances of the incident are such that it is uncertain whether or not it fits one of these types of abnormal situation . |
| 17 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 18 | Traditionally it has two main uses : by the Marxists to describe the type of society which preceded ‘ capitalist ’ society ; by legal historians to describe a particular kind of legal relationship . |
| 19 | So by controlling the concentration of the reagents that will affect which way it goes and a lot of them are temperature sensitive , we heat it up it goes one way , cool it down it goes the other . |
| 20 | And because that one even if we did n't rule out it says fifteen forty . |
| 21 | Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money . |
| 22 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 23 | Sir Nicholas Pelham lived in what is now the White Hart , the Gorings of Danny built ‘ Pelham ’ House in 1579 ; even now it hides one of the finest Elizabethan panelled rooms in the county . |
| 24 | Now it has 200 and by the end of the year there will be close to 400 . |
| 25 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 26 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 27 | Miami previously had no black members of Congress ; now it has two . |
| 28 | By now it contains hundreds of names from all over the world . |
| 29 | Well it said three wrong . |
| 30 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |