Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 2 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 3 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 4 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 5 | So this is , there 's going to be an X cubed term in here somewhere , and there might be X squared and Xs and anything else , but if it cuts it three places , it 's got three r three roots . |
| 6 | Make sure he takes it three times a day . |
| 7 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 8 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 9 | To illustrate , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day bill 10 days after issue at a rate of discount of 10 per cent and sells it 7 days later at the same rate of discount . |
| 10 | This makes it 100 times worse than the Windscale accident and 1000 times worse than the Three Mile Island accident . |
| 11 | That makes it three pints . |