Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nynex Corp 's New York Telephone says it has rerouted 2,000 telephone lines from the World Trade Center to tenants ' temporary offices scattered through Manhattan since Friday 's explosion ; it says it has also installed 1,000 new lines and 100 T1 high speed dedicated lines since the emergency . |
| 32 | THE longest fashion show in the history of the Borders knitwear industry — it has lasted 50 days — will come to an end in a blaze of colour and patriotism tomorrow , writes WILLIAM CHISHOLM . |
| 33 | Brighton Polytechnic has made an even bigger commitment to the scheme : it has distributed 20 adaptors to local schools , and expects to double the number of adaptors in its field trial in the near future . |
| 34 | It has won 63 Pulitzer prizes , more than any other newspaper , but only one of them for local reporting . |
| 35 | Six months on from the launch , Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent Computer Systems Inc claims it has won 30 customers for its ptx/Clusters high-availability clustering technology , most with several hundred users attached . |
| 36 | Through its attractive worship , effective publicity , well-planned visitation campaigns and interest groups it has attracted 375 worshippers . |
| 37 | Boxtree 's four Thunderbird titles have sold 168,000 copies since last June , it has shifted 228,000 Beverley Hills novels , 310,000 Simpson colouring and activity books , not to mention over 600,000 Hanna Barbera books . |
| 38 | In return , it has acquired two lawyers — Waddington and Mellor — plus a Wykehamist peer , Lord Ferrers . |
| 39 | For Training Officer , Sandra Brockman , it has meant 18 months of hard work compiling the recipe cards . |
| 40 | For Michael Kay , the present chairman of the RSPCA , it has meant 27 years in the field of animal welfare . |
| 41 | To help , it has hired 300 specialists , half of them black and all but two from minority groups , to work with ethnic groups . |
| 42 | Sun also claims it has shipped 70,000 Sparc 10 multiprocessing-capable machines to owners that are just now beginning to see the advantages of going to multiprocessing . |
| 43 | Since 1961 , it has happened 17 times in 31 seasons , or over half : a remarkable proportion given the economic imbalance that has developed already within English football during the last 31 years . |
| 44 | FMCG thinks it has found four preconditions that greatly enhance a merger 's chances of success . |
| 45 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 46 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 47 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 48 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 49 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 50 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 51 | Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m . |
| 52 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 53 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 54 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 55 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 56 | It has taken 876,000 bricks , 24,300 cubic metres of concrete , 700 concrete piles , and 3,500 tonnes of reinforcement to build the Cornmill . |
| 57 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 58 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 59 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 60 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |