Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture . |
| 2 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 3 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 4 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 5 | The future of Abe 's faction was unclear , for it contained many members who were thought to have joined in the belief that Abe was next in line for the office of Prime Minister . |
| 6 | The development of coloured carp appealed to the oriental penchant for patience and order , for it took many generations to produce recognisable bloodlines of Kohaku , Sanke or Showa . |