Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 2 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
| 3 | A massive , grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates , twice its allotted amount . |
| 4 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 5 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 6 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 7 | It occurred exactly four weeks after the frogs . |
| 8 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 9 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 10 | It was called the Wyrmberg and it rose almost one half of a mile above the green valley ; a mountain huge , grey and upside down . |
| 11 | At the time of publication ( 1987 ) it listed almost 300 Holtzapffel lathes still in existence in the world with 20 per cent of them in the United States . |
| 12 | In 1988 , it attracted over 15,000 visitors ; in 1990 , more than 200 artists took part . |
| 13 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 14 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 15 | Vienna , Virginia-based America Online Inc said that it added over 25,000 subscribers to its bulletin board service in the last month : Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has plans for the company . |
| 16 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 17 | It came just three weeks before the students were due to sit their examinations . |
| 18 | For it came barely three months before Israel 's general election , in which the fate of the territories was the central issue . |
| 19 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 20 | And it happened just two streets away from The Bar . |
| 21 | It happened exactly 10 years ago to the day . |
| 22 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 23 | Apart from the fact * IF * there was a pull , it happened about 2 yards outside the box . |
| 24 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 25 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 26 | Despite its low calibre , the weapon was hard to control firing on-full automatic , as it threw out 1,500 rounds per minute . |
| 27 | Its success — when founded it claimed over 700,000 members — reflected the failure of conservative Republicans to bring Spanish Catholics into the bosom of the Republic . |
| 28 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 29 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 30 | It showed just 25 minutes of the three-day World Cup in Barcelona ( the rest of its coverage was on Channel 4 ) . |