Example sentences of "and it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
2 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
3 | Leopards still die for their skins and it takes five to seven leopards to provide the material for one fur coat ! |
4 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
5 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
6 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
7 | The Niuas , as the trio are called , are closer to both Samoa and Fiji than to the main Tongan group , and it remains one of the odder quirks of Polynesian history that the islands belong to Tonga at all . |
8 | New components are added every year and it remains one of the most comprehensive and effective courses available . |
9 | For the time being , however , he did not discard his academic first-class honours and it remains one of the oddities of his life that the first published work of the future Nazi propagandist was a scholarly contribution to the Revue of English Studies in 1928 : ‘ A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [ a ] in the English of Today . ’ |
10 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
11 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
12 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
13 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
14 | paper about that Robin Reliant and he 's done it all up and it does hundred mile an hour ! |
15 | D = s0*w0 + s1*w1 + … + sN*wN and it produces 1 if D>0 0 otherwise . |
16 | And it take twenty four hours to go round once . |
17 | And it said thirty five . |
18 | The joint between your quartered oak disappear and it becomes one block . |
19 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
20 | Cos I I got a watch and it says five past twelve , but it 's more than that ! |
21 | And it says two families discover how the divide between the north and south is narrowing . |
22 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
23 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
24 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
25 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
26 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
27 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
28 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
29 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
30 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |