Example sentences of "[vb past] it would [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 2 | The PTT also boasted it would install 20 000 kilometres of optical fibre in Biarritz . |
| 3 | They established it would take five derelict wrecks to build up one flyable aircraft and its reliability would no doubt be poor . |
| 4 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
| 6 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
| 7 | Euro Disney thought it would attract 11 million fun-seekers by September . |
| 8 | A spokesman for British Rail said it would cost millions to put a railway link back into Guisborough and BR could not afford to do the work . |
| 9 | The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents . |
| 10 | BA said it would operate 13 former Dan-Air short-haul routes from Gatwick , using Dan-Air liveried aircraft for the time being . |
| 11 | Mr Knapp , chairman of the Better Rail Campaign , said it would hit thousands of BR pensioners who live in the Darlington area . |
| 12 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 13 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 14 | The Silverhill depot is shared by the department 's Water and Roads Services and sources said it would house millions of pounds worth of plant and equipment . |
| 15 | As part of a plan to create a ‘ new social infrastructure ’ , the government said it would buy 330,000 personal computers between now and 1996 for use in state schools . |
| 16 | London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign . |