Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [num] [noun] " 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 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 3 | It lies some five miles north of Manchester . |
| 4 | It has some 70 inhabitants and it has no shop and no public house . |
| 5 | It has some 20,000 prints and drawings of a topographical nature , and about 3000 broadsheets , some as old as 600 years . |
| 6 | Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars . |
| 7 | The engine was originally installed at Godwins Engineering Works at Quenington in Gloucestershire where it drove some 400 yards ( 369 metres ) of line shafting , powering the entire factory . |
| 8 | A private concern , it employed some fifty men , mostly tradesmen , fitters or winders , and two apprentices — lads of around Anton 's age with fathers working for the firm . |
| 9 | It covered some 2,000 establishments in all sectors of the economy . |
| 10 | By 1982 it covered some 500 acres . |
| 11 | It covered some 1000 sq.km and stood at 393 metres below sea level in the 1930s . |
| 12 | While in theory all parties are agreed that the talks should cover three ‘ strands ’ — Northern Ireland , north-south and Anglo-Irish relations — one UUP source said : ‘ It seems these three strands mean different things to different people . ’ |
| 13 | Those were the days , when it started several hundred years ago , when sensationalism was not the habit of the press . |
| 14 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 15 | Oh well , in the last second it went another ten metres . |
| 16 | Last second it went another ten metres . |
| 17 | If you can have it c if you can have it cut all one length it 's alright then . |
| 18 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 19 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 20 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
| 21 | It took another two months for the contract to be drawn up . |
| 22 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
| 23 | It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely . |
| 24 | It took another sixty years to achieve this ; Forster 's Education Act was not passed till 1870 . |
| 25 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 26 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 27 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The mountain goat is built primarily for steady , tireless climbing rather than speed and great agility : its short legs and short body , which allow it to place all four feet close together , also give it great stability on narrow , uneven ledges . |
| 30 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |