Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [be] [num] " in BNC.

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1 After two weeks of treatment median serum bismuth concentration was 3 ng/g ( interquartile range 2.0 to 6.0 ) and at trial exit it was 3 ng/g ( interquartile range 1.75 to 6.25 ) .
2 Today 's entry reveals it is 13,000 million light years away .
3 In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road .
4 The judge said it was one of the gravest attacks he 'd come across .
5 They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can
6 Failure to sell it was one reason why Mountleigh went into receivership — because of concern that the centre was built on contaminated land .
7 That if you like , er , and I 've used this example before but I 'll use it again , it was quite interesting I think anyway , is that one of the examples we used on one of courses , is that somebody calls into the depot and says , I need help , I 've got to get this delivered by tomorrow and collections or you or whoever takes the call , is very excited because this person says it 's three hundred and fifty kilos and I need it today , it 's Durham , we 'll use Durham , we 're starting from here , in Durham tomorrow morning .
8 The clock on the dash says it 's 03:10 .
9 The RSPCA says it 's one of the worst cases of it 's kind .
10 The regiment says it 's one day out you 'll never forget .
11 The sergeant remembered it was one of his characteristics Blanche had mentioned .
12 My strap-watch said it was ten minutes off seven and that did n't make me feel any better .
13 His watch said it was two o'clock ; so did the kitchen clock .
14 er dad says it 's one sixteen now
15 Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’
16 The clock says it is ten to five in the morning .
17 ‘ I decided it was sufficiently like a single-lead junction for the public to believe it was one and accordingly that it would not be wise to proceed with the scheme . ’
18 Its body shape means it is one of the safest and most stable road vehicles in cross winds .
19 Its body shape means it is one of the most stable road vehicles in crosswinds .
20 The RSPCA official who rescued the animal said it was one of the most sickening scenes he had ever witnessed .
21 By fence climbing and tarmac crossing it is 400 metres to the terminal building ; by the allowed route round it is five miles .
22 In most areas the continental crust consists of a thirty-kilometre thick slab of such rocks , but under high mountain ranges it is fifty or more kilometres thick .
23 Over the top , the road curved around to the left and a roadside milestone said it was two miles to Broughton Street .
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