Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 32 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 33 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 34 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 35 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 36 | I mean , I mean I 'm sure it 's useful in the sense that it gets one person through er doing a degree who could n't have done it otherwise , but whether it would actually give you the sort of experience you want , I 'm much more doubtful . |
| 37 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
| 38 | No financial details were revealed on AT&T Co 's acquisition of Shaye Communications Ltd ( CI No 2,148 ) , and no indication of the company 's size was given apart from the fact that it employs 60 people , many of whom are involved in the design and engineering of the firm 's products . |
| 39 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 40 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 41 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 42 | But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none . |
| 43 | The first is to The North : From the Aare to the Rhine Falls discover that it has two gates , and to find out why , it is necessary to learn a little about the town 's origins and early history . |
| 44 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 45 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 46 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 47 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 48 | ‘ Anyway , I really ca n't see that it matters one way or the other what I think , ’ Alison said . |
| 49 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 50 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 51 | Above them , and on the frontier , is the granite peak of Balaïtous , a real first division mountain , meaning , in the Pyrenees , that it tops 3,000 metres . |
| 52 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
| 53 | The British government says that it finances nine projects , including a recently opened satellite station in Nepal , and that it sees no necessity for a separate fund . |
| 54 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 55 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |
| 56 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 57 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 58 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 59 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 60 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |