Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 2 | Given the rugged nature of the area , I was shocked , indeed horrified , to find that although it contained several hundred of Prince Charlie 's caves , it only boasted three Munros . |
| 3 | The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that it kills 8 000 men each year — four times as many people as die from cervical cancer — it is under-recognised and under-researched . |
| 5 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 6 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 7 | How long he survived his restoration is not certainly known for Northumbrian regnal tradition retained no memory of Eardwulf 's second reign , but there is a possibility that it lasted some three or four years ( see below , p. 196 ) . |
| 8 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 9 | We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it . |
| 10 | The identification of the so-called Jurassic Way was always based on the very flimsy evidence that it linked some six or seven Iron Age sites . |
| 11 | But the victor was vanquished in turn once it lost two thirds of its tail . |
| 12 | Sharon formally submitted his resignation to the Cabinet on Feb. 18 , and it became effective two days later . |
| 13 | And it take twenty four hours to go round once . |
| 14 | And it said thirty five . |
| 15 | Reductions of 30 per cent have already been worked out and it understood another 10 per cent can be offered . |
| 16 | Right yo , you can have one player and it costs forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 17 | There 's no crackles and it 's expanding well and it peaks three eight two which is okay but it 's quite down on what it should be . |
| 18 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 19 | There is a haunting beauty about Caernarfon today , and it welcomes many thousands of visitors from many countries each year . |
| 20 | " An experience is rhythmic if it contains any one of these components . |
| 21 | I think it is broken because it says also er Manchester to er I know it 's expensive on British Rail but it says one thousand three hundred and five pounds up there . |
| 22 | If you choose system from the top menu , that puts you into DOS , but it leaves One Two Three there . |
| 23 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 24 | This body , because it contains fifty thousand million million tons of sodium chloride and similarly massive quantities of other dissolved salts , is undrinkable by most living creatures , but in scores of other ways is central — vital , indeed — to the existence of all life . |
| 25 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 26 | Thank you so if I press play and record now twenty one thirty , twenty two thirty it 's half past ten thirty five to half past ten that 's alright so if I press play and record now it should come on at wha one and a half and ten one forty so it should come on when it says one forty . |
| 27 | IBM Japan Ltd is not risking the opprobrium that fell on Eastman Kodak Co when it fired two thirds of its Japanese researchers and withdrew offers of employment it had made to graduates , but it does want to get its 25,000-strong workforce down by 1,200 . |
| 28 | Hits are broken on the show and bands that have n't yet got a record deal are often booked to appear As a result of heavy plugging on The Hitman And Her , Virgin gave Sandra 's Everlasting Love a UK release , but as soon as it went top 40 the programme dropped it , claiming it was not about pop hits . |
| 29 | He glimpsed the little digital readout on the lighted grey panel as it went 03.00 02.00 01.00 … |