Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 2 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 3 | There was also a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 4 | David Clark 's committee of 25 years ago , irreverently referred to in some quarters as the ‘ Dave Clark Five ’ although it contained 13 people , took as its main brief the worsening financial position of the game consequent upon the postwar trend of falling attendances for first-class matches and declining membership of county clubs . |
| 5 | The Baker-Aziz meeting was duly held in Geneva on Jan. 9 ; although it lasted six hours , no progress was made . |
| 6 | The opposition SDPJ failed to repeat its 1989 triumph , although it won 22 seats and maintained its pre-election strength of 69 upper house members . |
| 7 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 8 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 9 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 10 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 11 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 12 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 13 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 14 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 15 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 16 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 17 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 18 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 19 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 20 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 21 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 22 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 23 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 24 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 25 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 26 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 27 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 28 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 29 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 30 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |