Example sentences of "it would [verb] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — Santa Cruz says it would have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 systems still make up half its business . |
| 2 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 3 | Quantum theory implies that it would have to move 207 times closer to the central proton to maintain the stability of the atom . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 5 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |
| 6 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) . |
| 8 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 9 | It would have taken seven . |
| 10 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 11 | He could have stuck pins into himself and it would have taken ten seconds for his body to complain . |
| 12 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 13 | It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless . |
| 14 | Without the system of apparentements , it would have won 143 seats . |
| 15 | Without this disparity it would have had an overall entitlement of 38 seats , and instead of winning one excess seat it would have had two list seats in addition to the 36 it won in constituencies . |
| 16 | It would have needed two years , rather than two months , for the government to have made the changes necessary for them to become re-electable . ’ |
| 17 | On the basis of 2.5 cwt per animal , it would have needed 400 horses or mules . |
| 18 | It would like to fetch five times revenues — which were $160m in the fiscal year ended September 30 — but then who would n't . |