Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |
| 6 | Take China : in 1984 it imported $300 million worth of components to make 120,000 computers . |
| 7 | In 1976 it spent £24 million on renewing its railways and structures — £48 million at today 's prices . |
| 8 | In 1981 it spent £252 million . |
| 9 | In 1928 it cost £25 per gram , but by 1974 it was as low as £40 per kilogram . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
| 12 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 13 | In 1965 it received $71 million , of which 20 per cent was for military use . |