Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 32 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 33 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 34 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 35 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 36 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |
| 37 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |
| 38 | So , if an exemption clause was part of the contract and if on its wording it excused one party from a given liability , then the court had to give effect to the clause , i.e. that party ( usually the seller ) had a valid defence . |
| 39 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 40 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |