Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In about May 1977 he formed a company called Yash Pal Kansal & Co. , which flourished until by 1983 it operated some 20 chemist shops . |
| 2 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
| 3 | In nineteen eighty seven , it cost fifty seven pound this has increased by almost twenty nine per cent in the last five years . |
| 4 | Right yo , you can have one player and it costs forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 5 | It sees fiscal 1994 turnover of $1,000m , compared with $1,300m this year ; 3,300 more jobs will have to go over time . |
| 6 | It sees fiscal 1994 turnover of $1,000m , compared with $1,300m this year ; 3,300 more jobs will have to go over time . |
| 7 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 8 | Erm It takes forty eight man hours . |
| 9 | This job , whatever it is , it takes forty eight man hours . |
| 10 | The group , one of Europe 's leaders in the field , said it lost 650 billion lire ( £284 million ) last year , compared with 460 billion lire ( £201 million ) in 1991 , because of heavy competition and the international economic slowdown . |
| 11 | And then it went five hundred plus . |
| 12 | If you can have it c if you can have it cut all one length it 's alright then . |
| 13 | The jury must be satisfied that a significant proportion of the likely readership would be guided along the path of corruption : " Clearly s2 can not mean all persons ; nor can it mean any one person , for there are individuals who may be corrupted by almost anything . |
| 14 | Selby enjoy partially part part of their area enjoys assisted area status , part of it enjoys objective two status , it is an area where land is cheap , it is an area where there is a plentiful supply of labour , and yet the past allocation in the structure plan has not been taken up . |
| 15 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 16 | The Express has lost millions of readers since its heyday in 1964 when it had 4.2 million circulation — and the deadly decline continues this month . |
| 17 | The Government insists that a promise of secrecy given to manufacturers prevents it telling 8 million microwave owners exactly what may be wrong with their machines . |