Example sentences of "and it [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 2 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 3 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 4 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 5 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
| 6 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
| 7 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 8 | And it says two families discover how the divide between the north and south is narrowing . |
| 9 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 10 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 11 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 12 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 13 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 14 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 15 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 16 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 17 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 18 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 19 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 20 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 21 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 22 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 23 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 24 | We ship exports to Europe and it costs X pounds . |
| 25 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 26 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 27 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 28 | It is referred here to the Dryopithecinae and it includes three groups : ( 1 ) Dryopithecus itself in tribe Dryopithecini ; ( 2 ) a newly proposed tribe , Afropithecini with Afropithecus , Heliopithecus and Otavipithecus , together with material from Maboko Island and Nachola that has been referred in the past to Kenyapithecus ; and ( 3 ) the Kenyapithecini , which includes Kenyapithecus wickeri from Fort Ternan , Griphopithecus alpani from Pasalar , Turkey , and the postcrania from Klein Hadersdorf . |
| 29 | spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go |
| 30 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |