Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It plays back four frames on each revolution of the disc so you can not freeze the frame at any point you choose . |
2 | But he wants it to go up one percent . |
3 | It trades over 30 futures and options on physical and financial commodities . |
4 | Rushing , rushing , traffic from morning to night : it goes on twenty-four hours a day . |
5 | I hope it goes off one day . |
6 | It goes about fifteen feet . |
7 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
8 | It goes back 50 years . |
9 | Nor does it explain why one type of adaptation rather than another occurs ; for example , why innovation occurs rather than retreatism , or vice-versa . |
10 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
11 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
12 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
13 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
14 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
15 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
16 | A massive , grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates , twice its allotted amount . |
17 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
18 | And in the end it offers not one way , as the ideologue or the mystic would claim , but rather an acceptance that diversity is forever a fact of life . |
19 | Guarded by rugged mountains and an ancient water-tower , it lies just four miles from Villasimius in a little valley of orchards and vines . |
20 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
21 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
22 | It needs only one breakdown to stop the whole process , and if the operators are not careful whole pages can ‘ disappear ’ inside the computer . |
23 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
24 | It illustrates just four sports : football , boxing , athletics and snooker . |
25 | Intended to help prospective property purchasers find a suitable mortgage , it covers over 70 lenders , each with an average of eight schemes . |
26 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
27 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
28 | It occurred exactly four weeks after the frogs . |
29 | It has just one pickup and we 've talked about the idea of doing a version of it with a pickup in the bridge that you can mix in too . |
30 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |