Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Post Office failed to select him , albeit from over 300 candidates , as one of those for the nine sets of special stamps it plans to issue for 1994 . ’ |
| 2 | They have what it takes to exist for millions of years , and that is why they are still here today . |
| 3 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
| 4 | It takes the same amount of fuel to cook for 20 as it does to cook for 10 . |
| 5 | It found that " industrial production actually declined , as the steel sector , beset by falling world demand and heightened competition from abroad , was one of the weakest spots of the economy " ( although it continued to account for 7-8 per cent of GDP ) . |