Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 2 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 3 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 4 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 5 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 6 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 7 | When the lover 's list was first calculated in 1973 it cost just Pounds 2,818.60 . |
| 8 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 9 | In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 . |
| 10 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 11 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 12 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 13 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |
| 14 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 15 | In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan . |
| 16 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 17 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 18 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 19 | In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men . |
| 20 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 21 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 22 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 23 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |