Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of . |
| 2 | Envisaging a 4 per cent real growth in 1990 , it provided for a 10 per cent reduction in public expenditure , a wage increase for public employees , and the establishment of shops to sell basic items at low cost . |
| 3 | It provided for a 3.1 per cent increase in overall spending , to a total of F1,330,360 million , against a predicted inflation rate of 2.8 per cent ( US$1.00=F5.6999 as at Sept. 16 , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 . |
| 5 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 6 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 7 | It opened onto a six foot wide passage , on the left hand side of which was the rear wall of Standard Two . |
| 8 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 12 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 13 | Without telling anyone , I climbed to the top of the brick wall , looked over , it had about a nine foot drop on the other side and there in a Tate Sugar Box with a slatted front was a caged cockbird . |
| 14 | A CHEMICAL firm was fined £50,000 yesterday after people nearby in Houston , Texas , said it smelt like a thousand dirty socks in a gym . |