Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 2 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 3 | It became 50 times more sensitive . |
| 4 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 5 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 6 | It has two wheels instead on one , this means that you do n't have to take any of the weight of the load or keep the cart balanced , so loads can easily be tipped . |
| 7 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 8 | Malcolm White , who retired as Headmaster at Gillott 's School in 1980 , has revitalised the Junior section in recent years , so much so it has 55 members under 18 ( 53 boys and 2 girls ) . |
| 9 | It has 250 members worldwide and a profitable turnover of £3M per annum . |
| 10 | Unlike most ovens , it has three shelves instead of the usual two . |
| 11 | It has three times as many as the Metropolitan Museum in New York . |
| 12 | The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre . |
| 13 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 14 | He can impose his choice because the president is elected not by the voters but by the National Assembly , where the Motherland party still has an ample majority : it holds 290 seats out of 450 Should a party which , judging by the latest test at the polls , is supported by only one voter in five choose the head of state ? |
| 15 | In the last election in 1984 , it scored 24 wins out of 28 . |
| 16 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 17 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 18 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 19 | You were late getting in your order for the film ( though you swear the office forgot to send it on ) so on the appointed day , when it is n't there , you have to cobble something else together — and then show the film , when it arrives four weeks later , in the middle of a block of work to which it does not relate . |
| 20 | A letter erm from New Baysford it says Two weeks ago my car was nicked in Illkeston in the Pimlico car park between the hours of two and five whilst shopping . |
| 21 | And then it fills one side up then . |
| 22 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 23 | We had it built two years ago . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 25 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 26 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 27 | It happened one day when I ran out of petrol and this girl came along . |
| 28 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 29 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 30 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |