Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 .
2 Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually .
3 In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 .
4 In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers .
5 In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems .
6 By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line .
7 In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century .
8 By 1864 it had 600 employees .
9 In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan .
10 In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne .
11 In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men .
12 In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal .
13 In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop .
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