Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 2 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 3 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 4 | By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both . |
| 5 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 6 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 7 | In addition to twenty-five cabins it had three bars , a dining room which measured fifteen by fifty feet , a lounge with a baby grand piano , a writing room , library and sick bay . |
| 8 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 9 | For higher speeds the load angle d increases until at the highest speeds it approaches 90 degrees . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In other words it sleeps six erm and the landlady 's willing to have one person sleeping on the floor officially . |
| 12 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 13 | After four days it acquitted three of the defendants on all charges , and acquitted Powell — who had delivered most of the blows — on all but one minor count upon which the jury remained undecided . |
| 14 | In six of the survey 's eight categories it took one of the top three places ; it took top place ( see table 3 ) in its ability to attract and retain the ablest employees , its long-term investment value and its community and environmental responsibility . |
| 15 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 16 | Coloured will not do , since in most contexts it excludes one or more of the colours in the incompatible set . |