Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It covered some 2,000 establishments in all sectors of the economy . |
| 6 | By 1982 it covered some 500 acres . |
| 7 | It covered some 1000 sq.km and stood at 393 metres below sea level in the 1930s . |
| 8 | It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans . |
| 9 | 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 . |