Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb -s] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money . |
| 8 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 9 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 12 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 13 | And then it fills one side up then . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Seem to be almost anywhere except on over the page at the top , where it says one point four , and that was er , local authority fire brigade , other than that |
| 18 | Half of ICI 's manufacturing capacity is in Britain , where it employs 52,000 people . |
| 19 | Both honours reflect Engineering 's highly-organised approach to safety , both in Coventry , where it employs 330 people full-time and 50–60 on contract , and on Humberside , where another 20 work on project design . |
| 20 | to where it evaporates one step from the bottom , |
| 21 | ‘ Skiff types are splendid for Australia , where it blows 25 knots all the time and the water is warm . |
| 22 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 23 | Again it has two positions , labelled 0 and n on the Silver and Knitmaster and R and P on the Brother . |
| 24 | At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers . |
| 25 | 8 The total timing appears to reflect the use of the shorter versions of those movements where such exist , adding up to 30 ‘ bonnes minutes ’ , i.e. it includes two timings of ‘ bonnes minutes ’ and one of ‘ petites minutes , matching well the inscription ‘ une bonne demi-heure ’ ( See also note 12 . ) |