Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
| 2 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 3 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
| 4 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | but it done approximately thirty odd diff different |
| 6 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 7 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 8 | The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) . |
| 9 | Emergency Admission ( section 4 ) for up to seventy-two hours is possible on the application of the nearest relative or an approved social worker who must have seen the patient personally within the previous twenty-four hours , but it requires only one medical recommendation . |
| 10 | Now that Argo Navis has been dismantled , Hydra is the largest constellation in the sky , but it has only one bright star , the reddish Alpha or Alphard , nicknamed the ‘ Solitary One ’ because of its isolation ; it has been suspected of variability , though officially the magnitude is given as constant at 2.0 . |
| 11 | She reported that she was sure she would be able to prove something , but it needed just one operation , with more money . |
| 12 | But it costs about three hundred pounds . |