Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [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 | Malcolm White , who retired as Headmaster at Gillott 's School in 1980 , has revitalised the Junior section in recent years , so much so it has 55 members under 18 ( 53 boys and 2 girls ) . |
| 4 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
| 6 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 7 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 8 | Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money . |
| 9 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 10 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 11 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 12 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 13 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 14 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 15 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 16 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 17 | And then it fills one side up then . |
| 18 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 19 | It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ? |
| 20 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre . |
| 26 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 27 | Again it has two positions , labelled 0 and n on the Silver and Knitmaster and R and P on the Brother . |
| 28 | 8 The total timing appears to reflect the use of the shorter versions of those movements where such exist , adding up to 30 ‘ bonnes minutes ’ , i.e. it includes two timings of ‘ bonnes minutes ’ and one of ‘ petites minutes , matching well the inscription ‘ une bonne demi-heure ’ ( See also note 12 . ) |