Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It trades over 30 futures and options on physical and financial commodities . |
| 2 | It goes about fifteen feet . |
| 3 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 4 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
| 5 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 6 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
| 7 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
| 8 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 9 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
| 10 | A massive , grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates , twice its allotted amount . |
| 11 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 12 | Guarded by rugged mountains and an ancient water-tower , it lies just four miles from Villasimius in a little valley of orchards and vines . |
| 13 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 14 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 15 | It needs only one breakdown to stop the whole process , and if the operators are not careful whole pages can ‘ disappear ’ inside the computer . |
| 16 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 17 | It illustrates just four sports : football , boxing , athletics and snooker . |
| 18 | Intended to help prospective property purchasers find a suitable mortgage , it covers over 70 lenders , each with an average of eight schemes . |
| 19 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
| 20 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
| 21 | It occurred exactly four weeks after the frogs . |
| 22 | It has just one pickup and we 've talked about the idea of doing a version of it with a pickup in the bridge that you can mix in too . |
| 23 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 24 | It has over four hectares of terraced gardens leading down to the rocky shore where you can swim in the sea or swimming pool . |
| 25 | If you 're looking for a beach style holiday Playa Del Ingles must be on your short list — it has over four miles of sandy beach stretching from the centre of town to the high sand dunes at Mas Palomas , with plenty of seclusion for those who favour the all over tanning method . |
| 26 | It has about 300,000 cards in circulation in the UK — a million less than American Express . |
| 27 | It has about 200 branches , the most active in the North , Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 29 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 30 | The Halifax says it has about 505,000 Tessa account holders , with an average first-year balance of £2,700 , giving a total of around £1.4bn . |