Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 2 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows ( what a mouthful ! ) is a very quick performer , it zoomed through 157 Megabytes of files on our Victor V486M 's 200 Mb hard disk in just 47 seconds ! |
| 3 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 4 | It operated in 69 countries worldwide . |
| 5 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 6 | A few hours later , it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three . |
| 7 | By then it amounted to 8,000 volumes ; and by 1792 , at the outbreak of war between revolutionary France and most of Europe , this figure had risen to 12,000 . |
| 8 | It asked about six months in a limited industry , and I gave an accurate answer on that . |
| 9 | Atari recently sent a shiver through the industry when it laid off 1700 employees . |
| 10 | It expanded from 47,000 people in 1841 to 102,000 in 1901 and in 1860 nearly 150,000 people came to the town by excursion train in two successive days . |
| 11 | It involved over 37,000 feet of rock climbing at all times of the day and night , and 160 miles of ell running to transport a baton from one climbing team to another . |
| 12 | It rated about four paragraphs . |
| 13 | It provided for 532 flats and maisonettes in eleven storey and four storey blocks . |
| 14 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 15 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 16 | Moreover , under 1020 the death of Archbishop Lyfing is given first , although it occurred on 12 June , after Cnut 's return to England and the Easter meeting at Cirencester . |
| 17 | Rather , it occurred in four dimensions : the three to which we are accustomed , plus time . |
| 18 | Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours . |
| 19 | It promised about 25,000 people who have already booked that they will get refunds of up to £70 each . |
| 20 | It surfaced about twenty feet from the edge of the pool , slid its full length over a shallow sand bar and disappeared again . |
| 21 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 22 | In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled . |
| 23 | It drove to one side , then turned 90 degrees , its tracks skidding on the rubble . |
| 24 | It burned for three days . |
| 25 | An eight-member oboe band provided all of the instrumental accompaniment for the mascarade : it played in four parts for the dance pieces and to accompany the choruses , was reduced to a trio texture to accompany the bass airs , and provided a bass line during the other vocal airs and recitatives . |
| 26 | In this case , though , when I totalled their length it came to 2,000 words ; and the books editor had asked for 700 . |
| 27 | When we did it fairly roughly , it came to one point two ? |
| 28 | Quite funny in the shop , erm it came to one pound ninety two which is the usual price |
| 29 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 30 | He knew he was dying and retained his dignity to the end ; it came on 13 March 1967 , and the cricketing world , quite simply , was devastated . |