Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It revealed 10,000 chemical bombs , as well as 50 Scud missiles , including at least 30 with chemical warheads for long-range missiles . |
| 2 | It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved . |
| 3 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 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 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 7 | By the early part of the 18th century , it housed two fulling mills and in 1709 was leased or sold by John Freame to Thomas Yates or Yeates . |
| 8 | In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills . |
| 9 | It produced 100 million francs and plenty of newsreel showing sacks of letters being unloaded in Colombey . |
| 10 | It produced 3.8 million tonnes of carbon per year , even with the highest levels of energy efficiency . |
| 11 | It produced 20 000 curies of radioactivity . |
| 12 | but for us lot it made four nice medium size ones |
| 13 | As initially developed in the DOE ( Likierman , 1982 ; Whitbread , 1987 ) and later in the MOD ( Omand , 1983 ) it involved three main stages : |
| 14 | It rated one resident policeman and a mention in the Shell Guide . |
| 15 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 16 | It created three different kinds of school with ‘ parity of esteem ’ and children were allocated according to the result of the 11-plus examination . |
| 17 | It cost two million pounds , and includes the latest in video technology , as Adrian Britton reports . |
| 18 | It 's completed , it 's ready to work , it cost two billion dollars and it 's idle . |
| 19 | Readers Digest A to Z of Sewing Guide , lots of other things as well for a fiver , it cost thirty five quid . |
| 20 | In nineteen eighty seven , it cost fifty seven pound this has increased by almost twenty nine per cent in the last five years . |
| 21 | It cost eighty thousand pounds . |
| 22 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 23 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 24 | At a glittering prize-giving dinner in Liverpool 's Adelphi Hotel it beat 150 other company journals to win the British Association of Industrial Editors Gold Award for an unprecedented second time . |
| 25 | The IMM commenced business in 1972 when it listed seven foreign currency futures contracts . |
| 26 | It proposed four compulsory subjects : English , mathematics , physical education , and religious and moral education . |
| 27 | Between 15 October 1922 and 1 August 1923 , for example , it received 719,502 gold roubles from the tax in kind ( its highest source of income was 1,344,639 roubles from church treasures ) . |
| 28 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 29 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 30 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |