Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [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 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 3 | Sharon formally submitted his resignation to the Cabinet on Feb. 18 , and it became effective two days later . |
| 4 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 5 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 6 | We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] . |
| 7 | It produced 100 million francs and plenty of newsreel showing sacks of letters being unloaded in Colombey . |
| 8 | It produced 3.8 million tonnes of carbon per year , even with the highest levels of energy efficiency . |
| 9 | It produced 20 000 curies of radioactivity . |
| 10 | It cost two million pounds , and includes the latest in video technology , as Adrian Britton reports . |
| 11 | It 's completed , it 's ready to work , it cost two billion dollars and it 's idle . |
| 12 | Readers Digest A to Z of Sewing Guide , lots of other things as well for a fiver , it cost thirty five quid . |
| 13 | In nineteen eighty seven , it cost fifty seven pound this has increased by almost twenty nine per cent in the last five years . |
| 14 | It cost eighty thousand pounds . |
| 15 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 16 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It seemed one hundred years that those poor people looked up at him — at Gabriel the fraud — and waited for a miracle . |
| 19 | It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap . |
| 20 | Erm the worker density figure really relates to the job gap calculation erm which for Hambleton showed substantially less than the seventy hectares provided for in er the proposed policy , it showed thirty one hectares . |
| 21 | ‘ They reckon it killed sixteen thousand people . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 24 | It covered some 2,000 establishments in all sectors of the economy . |
| 25 | By 1982 it covered some 500 acres . |
| 26 | It covered some 1000 sq.km and stood at 393 metres below sea level in the 1930s . |
| 27 | The group , one of Europe 's leaders in the field , said it lost 650 billion lire ( £284 million ) last year , compared with 460 billion lire ( £201 million ) in 1991 , because of heavy competition and the international economic slowdown . |
| 28 | Those were the days , when it started several hundred years ago , when sensationalism was not the habit of the press . |
| 29 | Just last year it handled six million pounds worth of claims from churches hit by crime . |
| 30 | 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 . |