Example sentences of "say it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 2 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 3 | They say it contains eight per cent alcohol , and the locals down it by the gallon . |
| 4 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 5 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 6 | The AA says it surveyed two hundred and sixteen car parks … and the Westgate Centre scored joint lowest in every category . |
| 7 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 8 | Comtek ‘ 92 can , it seems , still justifiably be billed as Russia 's main trade event : this year the show attracted over 70 hard currency-paying exhibitors , most of which were Western companies ; that so many companies are willing to pay $350 per square metre is testimony to the fact that the Russian market retains the interest of a significant portion of Western companies ; show organiser Crocus International says it invited 200,000 ‘ specialists ’ to the show , but in reality , Comtek has become a popular event in all senses of the word with most companies using the show as an opportunity for general exposure to the Russian market rather than as a means of generating many hard sales leads . |
| 9 | It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month . |
| 10 | The company says it has four new products coming this quarter — Stacker for Macintosh , Stacker for OS/2 & MS-DOS , and two new releases of Stacker for Windows & MS-DOS to address the compression shortcomings of MS-DOS 6.0 , and it now has a streamlined organisation . |
| 11 | Its welcome sign says it has 90,000 inhabitants . |
| 12 | Tilting further at Sun , HP says it has eight RISC Unix announcements to make before Sun wraps up its May 19th Viking launch ( we 're still waiting ) . |
| 13 | Additionally , NCR says it has two optional plug-in ASIC devices for highly secure situations , the Data Encryption Standard for financial institutions , or the Advanced Encryption Scheme , both of which are claimed to provide virtually unbreakable data encryption . |
| 14 | Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process . |
| 15 | Intel Corp says it has now received over 30 orders for its Paragon parallel supercomputer , which began shipping in September , and Thinking Machines Corp , Cambridge , says it has 20 CM-5s already installed with customers ; it just sold a $15.8m CM-5 to the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing . |
| 16 | DG says it has 15,000 AViiON servers in the field . |
| 17 | The video cover says it includes two 40-minute fitness workouts plus an extra 10-minute jump-start mini workout . |
| 18 | Thames Valley Police Force says it needs 800 more officers to cope with rising crime , starting with 200 this year . |
| 19 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 20 | The company says it supports 16 serial ports operating at up to 115.2Kbps . |
| 21 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 22 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 23 | The Open Software Foundation has been quoted in the US press as saying it shipped 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
| 24 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 25 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 26 | The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 27 | It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 28 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
| 29 | Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation . |
| 30 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |