Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
| 2 | It lies some five miles north of Manchester . |
| 3 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 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 | Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest . |
| 7 | Thurcroft colliery in my constituency is now threatened with closure because of a short-term geological problem , yet it has 20 million tonnes of workable low-sulphur reserves . |
| 8 | Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars . |
| 9 | it holds forty four cows . |
| 10 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that it kills 8 000 men each year — four times as many people as die from cervical cancer — it is under-recognised and under-researched . |
| 12 | It says seventy five minutes I 'll ge I 'll ask it again How long is it ? |
| 13 | Erm , if you turn over the page it says seventy eight percent of female claims have been on the diagnosis of cancer , and it gives you a breakdown of the condition and the age when diagnosed . |
| 14 | It measures 3 5/8 inches in height and width . |
| 15 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 16 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 17 | Do you know it costs thirty five pence from Bentley into town |
| 18 | Well , you 've just said a word , it costs three hundred pounds ! |
| 19 | Right yo , you can have one player and it costs forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 20 | It costs eighty five p , and you can get it from any of the H M S O — Her Majesty 's Stationery Office — or you could order it , I should think , from most bookshops , and that 'll give you a pretty good overview of what Warnock is trying to do , and then , of course if anybody 's interested enough in comparing that with the Act , you 'll see the kind of things that were in the Warnock Report have n't actually come through in the act . |
| 21 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 22 | It sees fiscal 1994 turnover of $1,000m , compared with $1,300m this year ; 3,300 more jobs will have to go over time . |
| 23 | It sees fiscal 1994 turnover of $1,000m , compared with $1,300m this year ; 3,300 more jobs will have to go over time . |
| 24 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 25 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 26 | Star Trek , it takes one million dollars to film just erm to make just one episode of Star Trek . |
| 27 | It takes five thousand nuts to make a ton of copra , which sells at twenty-four pounds a ton ; and that in turn will only produce about a third of a ton of hair shampoo . |
| 28 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 29 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 30 | It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit is the correct term for going round something , to orbit the earth . |