Example sentences of "it [be] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's fine , but why should it be down to thirty percent ? |
| 2 | I mean that if it 's over like two years make quite a difference though . |
| 3 | now of course it 's up to sixteen or rather under sixteen . |
| 4 | It 's up to one pound eighty two , an increase of eight per cent , more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | But the first thing you must do , once you know the figure , take seventy- five per cent of it , if it 's up to forty-five thousand and obviously these are . |
| 6 | well it 's , it 's it 's on at one o'clock , one o'clock and er it 's on erm half past six tonight , well I 've taped it at half past six tonight and after everybody 's watched the news I 've , I watched it after , er , you know , so , I watch it then an hour |
| 7 | It 's on at 3.20 on Sunday afternoon . |
| 8 | It 's on at 3.20 on Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | It 's on for two hours . |
| 10 | It 's on for three hours . |
| 11 | Someone , someone told me it 's on for three and a half hours ! |
| 12 | Anyway , it 's on till eleven forty , a bit late . |
| 13 | It starts at eight , and it 's on till ten and from ten till eleven . |
| 14 | It 's on till ten and then it 's on after the news , for another hour . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's on in three weeks ’ time . ’ |
| 16 | It 's on until 18 April . |
| 17 | It 's on until 23 May . |
| 18 | Also it 's down to two lanes running in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame , and er on the A forty one the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights , that 's between the Soldern turnoff by the Bear public house and Northampshire border , that 's going to be causing some delays . |
| 19 | And on the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , and a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , also that 's down to single line traffic at times , so that could slow you down quite a lot . |
| 20 | On the M forty itself between junctions four and five , that 's the stretch between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , and at times , it 's down to single line traffic . |
| 21 | On the A Six O Nine there 's resurfacing on Road between Drive and Drive and erm further up the M One junction eighteen , it 's down to one lane on the southbound carriageway that is causing delays and there is a contraflow on the M One between junctions twenty one and twenty two in operation there in both directions . |
| 22 | And on the M forty between junctions one and one A , that 's the stretch between Denham and the M twenty five , the outside lane is closed in both directions , there also is some repair work going on between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame , where it 's down to one lane in both directions . |
| 23 | then he 's lost er you 've lost another seat so his majority is even smaller , it 's down from nineteen to seventeen . |
| 24 | Gram for gram it is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and on average three times sweeter than aspartame . |
| 25 | In the east it is up to 16 times more acid . |
| 26 | It is up to 50 feet high , overhanging throughout and wide enough to allow 15 or more teams to operate at one time . |
| 27 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 28 | I am sure that the House will welcome the fact that it is down to 3.7 per cent . |
| 29 | The pain was terrible , but it was over in fifteen minutes , and I did n't move . |
| 30 | Well it was over in nineteen eighteen . |