Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [num] [noun pl] " 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 | The Baker-Aziz meeting was duly held in Geneva on Jan. 9 ; although it lasted six hours , no progress was made . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 7 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 19 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 20 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 25 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 26 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 27 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 28 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 30 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |