Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Project experiments have shown that any sound can be distracting as long has it has two characteristics : that is varies on content and that the stream of sound can be broken up ( or segmented ) into separate entities . |
| 2 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 3 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 4 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 5 | It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month . |
| 6 | Its welcome sign says it has 90,000 inhabitants . |
| 7 | Tilting further at Sun , HP says it has eight RISC Unix announcements to make before Sun wraps up its May 19th Viking launch ( we 're still waiting ) . |
| 8 | Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process . |
| 9 | DG says it has 15,000 AViiON servers in the field . |
| 10 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 11 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 12 | Novell Inc reckons it has four paths into the Unix market : NetWare , NetWare for Unix , NetWare NFS and Univel Inc . |
| 13 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 14 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 15 | It 's a triangle entails It has three angles Lesley is Arthur 's mother entails Lesley is female |
| 16 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 17 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |
| 18 | If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour . |
| 19 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 20 | Why does it say three disks . |
| 21 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 22 | The IRA claims it gave 38 minutes warning of the Warrington bombs and details of their exact location . |