Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ .
2 I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs .
3 It 's a dog does not entail It has four legs
4 In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided .
5 The company calls the project its Infostructure Network , and it will involve it laying 7,000 miles of fibre this year alone , which it sees being used for home shopping services , software delivery , movie offerings and interactive educational programming as well as up to 500 television channels .
6 ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job .
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