Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold 100,000 copies and is still selling , 1,400 last week . ’ |
| 2 | It made seventy claims and described the two-channel stereo record adopted worldwide since 1958 , and foresaw quadrophonics . |
| 3 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 4 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |
| 5 | It weighed 10 cwt and stood 5 ft 7 in high on its plinth . |
| 6 | Yes coun councillor I can advise you that in fact it did cost considerably in excess of two pounds fifty , it cost four pounds and sixty one pence each . |
| 7 | A multi-million pound industry in its own right , it cost 3 guitars and a drum kit to commence business . |
| 8 | It listed 58 accidents and safety-related incidents since 1955 . |
| 9 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 10 | In 1932 , at the peak of unemployment , it claimed 386 branches and 50,000 members . |
| 11 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 12 | In 1991 , it shed 21,000 jobs and closed 40 plants in an effort to reduce capacity and boost profits by about £400 million annually . |
| 13 | It brought 6 goals and the man of the match award for Glenn Hoddle . |
| 14 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 15 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 16 | It took one bounce and rolled right into the hole for birdie . |
| 17 | In 1872 , it took 10 hours and 12 relay stations to telegraph Australia . |
| 18 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 19 | The opposition SDPJ failed to repeat its 1989 triumph , although it won 22 seats and maintained its pre-election strength of 69 upper house members . |
| 20 | It enrolled 6090 patients and assigned them to enalapril or placebo . |
| 21 | The Organization of European Economic Co-operation had flourished so much that , by 1959 , it had eighteen members and other countries outside Europe , such as the U.S.A. , Canada , Australia & Japan , wished to join . |
| 22 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 23 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 24 | The 1970 Conservative Government replaced the Estimates Committee by an Expenditure Committee with broader terms of reference ; it had forty-five members and worked through subcommittees specializing in different areas of government activity . |
| 25 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 26 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It lasted six hours and five minutes and included two hours and 20 minutes of decompression ! |
| 28 | It lasted twelve hours and that was the worst twelve hours in my life . |
| 29 | It lasted three days and during that time the 4,000 delegates had a choice of plenary sessions with top speakers , technical study groups , workshops , banquets , free time and even great music . |
| 30 | It held 250 books and did n't attempt to divide them by author , title or illustrator . |