Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [num] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 So it stayed 70 years on the floor .
4 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 ) .
5 None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear .
6 Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things .
7 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 .
8 Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’
9 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 .
10 Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money .
11 Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes .
12 In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers .
13 Now it has two security guards .
14 Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg .
15 And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . "
16 Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty .
17 This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go .
18 Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty .
19 So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies .
20 And then it fills one side up then .
21 Then it became ten performances , same fee .
22 It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ?
23 At least it teaches one respect for facts .
24 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
25 Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China .
26 The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart .
27 Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome .
28 The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre .
29 Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians .
30 It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast .
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