Example sentences of "it is [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply one approach to the use of medicinal substances and its place should be firmly within the medical profession as a further tool available to the doctor , dentist or veterinary practitioner in addition to his or her orthodox knowledge . |
| 2 | My connections with the City are , as I have said , rather tenuous , but it is nearly six years ago to the day since our wedding , when yet again the traffic in the City was brought to a standstill . |
| 3 | But it is nearly four months since they were published . |
| 4 | It is nearly 10 times the size of the UK 's biggest industrial conglomerate , British Aerospace including its Rover car subsidiary , and dwarfs even the mighty Japanese motor manufacturers Toyota and Nissan . |
| 5 | It is nearly two weeks since I last touched a drink and we are still undefeated in the League . |
| 6 | It is nearly two years now since we published our report on unemployment in West Belfast . |
| 7 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 8 | It is nearly 20 years since a government White Paper , Sport and Recreation , acknowledged that by ‘ reducing boredom and urban frustration , participation in active recreation contributes to the reduction of hooliganism and delinquency among young people ’ . |
| 9 | It is nearly ten years since the Health and Safety at Work Act made statutory provisions for trade union involvement in occupational health and safety . |
| 10 | It is nearly twenty years … ‘ |
| 11 | For further information contact the Higgs & Hill Sales Office on 0705–210152 or Oyster Quay Sales Office on 0705–219109 or visit today — it is open 7 days a week from 10.30am to 4.30pm . |
| 12 | It is open seven days a week throughout the year . |
| 13 | Thus , by this definition , and for pruning purposes , late produced growth in autumn will have become ‘ old ’ as distinct from ‘ new ’ by the following spring , when it is scarcely six months old ! |
| 14 | More practically , it is probably one reason why the E. coli of distant lands , where different diets provide it with significantly distinct primary habitats , are apt to give the intrepid traveller diarrhoea . |
| 15 | In the United States the FBI believes it is probably ten times more underreported than rape ( quoted in Smith 1989 ) . |
| 16 | This figure is all the more staggering when put in context : it is over four times the value of all Bolivia 's other export earnings that year and about equal to the entire country 's official gross national product . |
| 17 | It is reddish , with a K-type spectrum , and has been strongly suspected of variability ; it is over 500 light-years away , and 5000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 18 | It is over 10 months since the bills were delivered . |
| 19 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 20 | The fainter member of the pair is much the more luminous , but it is over 2500 light-years away , and is actually a great deal more powerful than Antares . |
| 21 | It is over 1000 light-years away . |
| 22 | It is over 800 feet long and contains some 2500 human figures . |
| 23 | It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect . |
| 24 | Situated as it is approximately one mile from the Hull/ York road , it has grown gradually , and yet not been subjected to heavy traffic apart from distribution and collection purposes . |
| 25 | It is approximately 300 miles from the islands . |
| 26 | But in 1979 , only 13 p.c. of households had two or more cars — now it is approximately 22 p.c . |
| 27 | It is just 500 years since John Cabot sailed from Bristol to discover Newfoundland . |
| 28 | Set in a beautifully landscaped park , it is just 100 yards from the lakeside . |
| 29 | It is just five yards from the Grand Canal and a picturesque 20-minute boat ride from St Mark 's . |
| 30 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |