Example sentences of "it [verb] some [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 It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans .
13 In California , it extends some 400 km along the coast from Sonoma County to Eureka .
14 It claims some 3,000 jobs in construction would reduce to 1,000 full-time jobs when the construction phase is over : the local area has a 30 per cent male unemployment rate .
15 Our first difference arose over the Biafran War , which began in July 1967 and in which , by the time it ended some three years later , there had been a civilian death toll alone in Biafra of over two million people .
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