Example sentences of "[num] [noun] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
2 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
3 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
4 | On 17 November it told Dista it thought it would be ‘ inappropriate ’ to publish the proposed data sheet change . |
5 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
6 | In one year it won 6% of the market ! |
7 | As the ‘ five chapters ’ Elizabeth and Ivy had already seen it , and after one or two criticisms it had Ivy 's imprimatur . |