Example sentences of "it would [verb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million . |
| 2 | Euro Disney thought it would attract 11 million fun-seekers by September . |
| 3 | General Dynamics suggested that the cancellation would force it to lay off 4,000 of its 100,000 employees , while McDonnell Douglas estimated that it would make some 3,000 redundancies . |
| 4 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 5 | If all this fused … it would give 2 million calories ( of heat ) per gram . |
| 6 | The report estimates it would cost 6,000 million roubles to build reprocessing facilities , which Russia can not afford . |
| 7 | A spokeswoman for British Rail said : ‘ It would cost many millions to put the line back . |
| 8 | Gibraltar 's attorney- general , John Blackburn Gittings , said that it would cost many thousands of pounds in legal fees alone for an estimated three-day contested hearing before the Privy Council . |
| 9 | If the A66(M) junction were redesigned it would cost several million pounds and take several years to complete , he said . |
| 10 | If the A66(M) junction were redesigned it would cost several million pounds and take several years to complete , he said . |
| 11 | ‘ We also enquired about painting the LP sleeve on the side of the plane , but when we found out that it would cost another two and a half grand for the paint job we drew the line . ’ |
| 12 | It is that , according to the Department of Employment figures , if the Labour party 's economic proposals for a minimum wage were put into effect it would cost some 2 million jobs , of which 50,000 would be in Northern Ireland , where we have a large number of women workers in the clothing , textile and garment industries . |
| 13 | It would require two million for the costs to be covered , so the Spanish government has to make up the shortfall . |
| 14 | Furthermore , giving existing voting behaviour , it would deprive any one party of an overall majority of seats . |
| 15 | The PTT also boasted it would install 20 000 kilometres of optical fibre in Biarritz . |
| 16 | THE TOWN of Nagasaki said yesterday it would earmark two million yen ( £12,000 ) in its 1993 budget towards aiding Korean survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombing of the city , but the Koreans , who were working in Nagasaki as imported labourers , must come to Japan to receive the free medical treatment . |
| 17 | It would take many thousands of years . |
| 18 | Now it would take four hundred . ‘ |
| 19 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 20 | It is at Labour conferences that you get the sweet nuttiness of Baby Milk Action , which proclaims , ‘ Breast Milk : a World Resource , ’ and tells you , as a fact , that it would take 114 million lactating cows to replace the milk of the women of India . |
| 21 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 22 | If permission is granted for the laboratory , then it would take another two to three years to construct , gather data and analyse the results . |
| 23 | In fact it would take another seven . |
| 24 | However , he thought it would take another ten years of satellite measurements before the predicted temperature increases and climate changes could be confirmed . |
| 25 | If it was path it would point one five would n't it ? |
| 26 | In other bad news , Japan 's domestic telecommunications giant , NTT , said it would cut another 30,000 jobs between 1994 and 1996 , on top of a planned 40,000 jobs to be lost between 1990 and 1993 . |