Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Project experiments have shown that any sound can be distracting as long has it has two characteristics : that is varies on content and that the stream of sound can be broken up ( or segmented ) into separate entities . |
| 2 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 3 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 4 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 5 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 6 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 7 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 8 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 9 | The society claims , however , that recent votes show it has 3-1 support in the House of Lords and more in the Commons . |
| 10 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 11 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 12 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 13 | It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month . |
| 14 | Its welcome sign says it has 90,000 inhabitants . |
| 15 | Tilting further at Sun , HP says it has eight RISC Unix announcements to make before Sun wraps up its May 19th Viking launch ( we 're still waiting ) . |
| 16 | Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process . |
| 17 | DG says it has 15,000 AViiON servers in the field . |
| 18 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 19 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 20 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 21 | Weaver had a Council flat , but let it go three months back . |
| 22 | " Fill your Sillabub pot half full with sider , and good store of sugar , and a little nutmeg , stir it well together , and put in as much cream by two or three spoonfuls at a time , as hard as you can , as though you milk it in ; then stir it together very softly once about , and let it stand two hours before you eat it , for the standing makes it curd . " |
| 23 | Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy . |
| 24 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 25 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 26 | Novell Inc reckons it has four paths into the Unix market : NetWare , NetWare for Unix , NetWare NFS and Univel Inc . |
| 27 | Have n't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription ? |
| 28 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 29 | It 's a dog does not entail It has four legs |
| 30 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |