Example sentences of "[coord] [num] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
2 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
3 | Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks . |
4 | But gradually in the l950s and 1960s it became clear that , though the economy had grown considerably since 1945 , the UK was not keeping up with its rivals abroad . |
5 | During 1967 and 1968 it received some one hundred and fifty cards or letters every day . |