Example sentences of "but it [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 2 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 3 | But it had 22 frets , big frets , and really loud humbuckers and that was why I liked it . |
| 4 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 5 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 6 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 7 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 9 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 10 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 11 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 12 | but it took five years |
| 13 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 14 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 15 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 16 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 17 | ( normal ) It 's a dog , but it has four legs . |
| 18 | According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking . |
| 19 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 20 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 21 | But it included two innovations : condoms were to be distributed to those adolescents who requested them , and homosexuals were to be included in the list of cultural minorities to be studied and appreciated . |
| 22 | But it costs two pounds |