Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 2 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |
| 3 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 4 | Not big at all , just comfortable , so that it sleeps two or three . |
| 5 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 6 | The bottom ram is part of the spine assembly , so that it creates two ‘ nostrils ’ beneath the top ram . |
| 7 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 8 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 9 | When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs . |
| 10 | So something that you had to multiply by itself and get five of them all multiplied together and it equals two . |
| 11 | The UK government will issue health warnings about low-level ozone pollution only when it reaches 200 parts per billion — more than twice the safety threshold of 75 parts per billion set by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 12 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 14 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 15 | Mm I 'm going to bed then as soon as it hits twelve . |
| 16 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 17 | I have already pointed out that if your machine has a programme memory you can set it to stop automatically when it reaches 000 . |
| 18 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For once , I thought before speaking , and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage . |
| 21 | Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank . |
| 22 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 23 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 24 | No you 're looking at the wrong one , this eight down here where it says eight and then there 's an O and a Z , that 's eight ounces which is about two and something grams , we 're not worried about grams today , in ounces , oh , think that will be enough ? |
| 25 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 26 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 27 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 28 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |