Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 2 June 1832–1845 it carried 200,000 to 300,000 passengers per year — more passengers per mile than the Liverpool and Manchester railway . |
| 2 | In 1981 it launched one of Japan 's most precise assembly robots , capable of inserting objects into 0.5 mm-diameter holes and of performing delicate laser welding . |
| 3 | By late 1987 it claimed 3,200 of the 7,000 train driving staff , and was confident enough to launch paralysing one-day strikes in support of its demands . |
| 4 | If the effect of the new issue was to value PCI at $150 million , which would be very modest by American valuations of telecommunications companies , given that it has 12 to 13 million potential subscribers , it would mean Pittencrieff 's oil and gas interests would effectively be valued at nothing at the company 's current market capitalisation of just under £100 million . |
| 5 | In 1563 it killed one in every five Londoners . |
| 6 | At its best it remains one of the few areas of the modern press where imagination , honesty and idealism , however fatuous , can still , occasionally , be found . |