Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
6 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
7 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
8 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |