Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In about May 1977 he formed a company called Yash Pal Kansal & Co. , which flourished until by 1983 it operated some 20 chemist shops . |
| 2 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 3 | Sharon formally submitted his resignation to the Cabinet on Feb. 18 , and it became effective two days later . |
| 4 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 5 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 6 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 7 | It produced 100 million francs and plenty of newsreel showing sacks of letters being unloaded in Colombey . |
| 8 | It produced 3.8 million tonnes of carbon per year , even with the highest levels of energy efficiency . |
| 9 | It produced 20 000 curies of radioactivity . |
| 10 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
| 11 | It lies some five miles north of Manchester . |
| 12 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 13 | It has some 70 inhabitants and it has no shop and no public house . |
| 14 | It has some 20,000 prints and drawings of a topographical nature , and about 3000 broadsheets , some as old as 600 years . |
| 15 | Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest . |
| 16 | Thurcroft colliery in my constituency is now threatened with closure because of a short-term geological problem , yet it has 20 million tonnes of workable low-sulphur reserves . |
| 17 | Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars . |
| 18 | It cost two million pounds , and includes the latest in video technology , as Adrian Britton reports . |
| 19 | It 's completed , it 's ready to work , it cost two billion dollars and it 's idle . |
| 20 | Readers Digest A to Z of Sewing Guide , lots of other things as well for a fiver , it cost thirty five quid . |
| 21 | In nineteen eighty seven , it cost fifty seven pound this has increased by almost twenty nine per cent in the last five years . |
| 22 | It cost eighty thousand pounds . |
| 23 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 24 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 25 | it holds forty four cows . |
| 26 | The engine was originally installed at Godwins Engineering Works at Quenington in Gloucestershire where it drove some 400 yards ( 369 metres ) of line shafting , powering the entire factory . |
| 27 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that it kills 8 000 men each year — four times as many people as die from cervical cancer — it is under-recognised and under-researched . |
| 29 | It says seventy five minutes I 'll ge I 'll ask it again How long is it ? |
| 30 | Erm , if you turn over the page it says seventy eight percent of female claims have been on the diagnosis of cancer , and it gives you a breakdown of the condition and the age when diagnosed . |