Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [num] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he wants it to go up one percent . |
| 2 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
| 3 | They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It uses about twenty pence during night , not forty . |
| 6 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 7 | It says around 300 people are waiting for such accommodation equivalent to ten new schemes . |
| 8 | It employs around 24,000 people worldwide . |
| 9 | It employs about 50,000 people . |
| 10 | It employed almost 100,000 staff directly , mainly in our social security offices , and was responsible for the National Health Service — which with almost a million staff was the largest employer in Europe . |
| 11 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 12 | It estimates approximately 23,400 people were infected with the Aids virus , HIV , in England and Wales at the end of 1991 the last year full figures are available . |
| 13 | Perhaps I missed it , it had about twelve people in it . |
| 14 | At that time , Lincolnshire was the second largest county in England but it was thirteenth in terms of population ; it had only 208,557 people in 1801 and 407,222 fifty years later . |
| 15 | At present , it comprises just 400 staff ( including an ‘ ethno-musicologist ’ ) out of a total of 14,000 . |