Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 2 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 3 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 4 | In addition to twenty-five cabins it had three bars , a dining room which measured fifteen by fifty feet , a lounge with a baby grand piano , a writing room , library and sick bay . |
| 5 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 6 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 7 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |