Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’ |
| 2 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 3 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 4 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 5 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 6 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 7 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 8 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 9 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 10 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |