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

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1 The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products .
2 Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year .
3 Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ?
4 One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’
5 I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ?
6 Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation .
7 The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted .
8 Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor .
9 Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ .
10 Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London .
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