Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then it amounted to 8,000 volumes ; and by 1792 , at the outbreak of war between revolutionary France and most of Europe , this figure had risen to 12,000 . |
| 2 | It drove to one side , then turned 90 degrees , its tracks skidding on the rubble . |
| 3 | In this case , though , when I totalled their length it came to 2,000 words ; and the books editor had asked for 700 . |
| 4 | When we did it fairly roughly , it came to one point two ? |
| 5 | Quite funny in the shop , erm it came to one pound ninety two which is the usual price |
| 6 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 7 | A ham came next ; after some frenzied bidding at the lower prices it climbed to thirteen guineas , then to fourteen where it seemed likely to stay until at the very last moment , a cautious male voice offered fifteen guineas . |
| 8 | It opened to 12 months ' solid booking , having taken record advance bookings of$9.6 million in ticket sales . |
| 9 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 10 | Erm there used to be an agreed area of three miles then it went to twelve miles but that 's now in question because of the different ways in which the sea has been developed . |
| 11 | It went to thirteen weeks and then it went to twenty six weeks . |
| 12 | And I think our wages were about twelve and six a week and then it went to fifteen shillings a week . |
| 13 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
| 14 | Erm so it went to seven months and then you could see us switch back on time and we switched back on in about November . |
| 15 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 16 | It scraped to one side as they slid to the carpeted floor . |
| 17 | It ran to five editions in his life-time , with a sixth completed just before he died but not published until many years later . |
| 18 | I would prefer it to see it extended to ten miles if that sector was chosen . |