Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 2 | Stories are circulating that Ford will announce it has built a 5 per cent shareholding early next week . |
| 3 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 4 | Murray also announced that it has made a 119 per cent gain on its holding in Yorkshire Food Group , which was floated in March after the first half ended . |
| 5 | It has launched a thousand folk tales ; and now is proving a superb model for studying the hormones that control plant growth |
| 6 | It has reported a 77 p.c. increase in complaints and cited pension transfer advice as one of the biggest problem areas . |
| 7 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 8 | The suggested Directive will also grant important compulsory acquisition rights to the dominant undertaking if it has acquired a 90 per cent holding , whether or not there is a control contract . |
| 9 | It has produced a 25 per cent compound growth in earnings per share in the last five years . |
| 10 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 11 | It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession . |
| 12 | At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid . |
| 13 | So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site . |
| 14 | They may know nothing about media selection , or how to produce a TV commercial , or what it costs to buy a 20 cm × 5 cols space in the Finchley Advertiser . |
| 15 | Illustrate the bank 's new profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it wishes to maintain a 50 per cent liquidity ratio — that is , the ratio of cash and bills to total deposits . |
| 16 | By an almost unbelievable contrast , the summit was not even mentioned on the main 8 pm television news in France ( Antenne 2 ) , although it did get a ten second slot as the tenth item on the midnight news bulletin . |
| 17 | Japan 's seventh-largest bank , Tokai Bank Ltd , announced on July 27 that it had uncovered a 63,000 million yen ( $450 million ) fraud involving deposit certificates . |
| 18 | The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sept. 10 , 1989 , that it had imposed a 1 per cent increase in interest rates on savings deposits and bank loans , the first such increase for over eight years . |
| 19 | On Oct. 3 the EC Commission announced , in response to US demands for radical cuts in subsidies paid out to farmers , that it had proposed a 30 per cent cut in its farm-support programme over the period 1986 to 1996 . |
| 20 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
| 21 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 22 | It 's done a hundred and eight thousand mile ! |
| 23 | Er And it it 's reckoned a hundred and sixty thousand people die a year , of smoking related diseases . |
| 24 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 25 | It 's got a hundred and fifty sheets in it . |
| 26 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |
| 27 | It 's got a hundred thirty nine up there , and it 's got a hundred |
| 28 | It 's got a hundred thirty nine up there , and it 's got a hundred |
| 29 | ‘ It 's got a nine written in the margin , ’ he said . |
| 30 | say , and there 's a one way road coming along , it 's got a two way traffic on the top , but it crosses it |