Example sentences of "it [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ? |
| 2 | Call it 1.5 billion years ago . |
| 3 | in it awful seventeen years |
| 4 | Bomber Command got it right two weeks later ! |
| 5 | He told us how he had been encouraged by the responses received from the agri-food industry ever since he threw out a challenge to it some four months ago . |
| 6 | And I thi and erm I think west was seven , and that 's only five centimetres , so I extended it another two centimetres . |
| 7 | ‘ Let them leave it another two weeks to make the two months , ’ he advised . |
| 8 | We spent a wonderful week together and have agreed we wo n't leave it another eight years before we meet again . |
| 9 | And I stuck it in there and I , I figured it had been there now for what eighteen months and I think it was you who said oh give it another six months |
| 10 | Give it another fifty years or so , and one should then be able to understand much more the system . |
| 11 | Give it another twenty years and there wo n't be people left who remember . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll give it another twenty-four hours , and see what the British come up with , ’ said Odell finally . |
| 13 | When it was nearly dark , Flavia gave it another ten minutes , another five ; five more . |
| 14 | Give it another ten minutes , make sure the top the bacon |
| 15 | I leave it another ten minutes Jean , cos I |
| 16 | Well if I go through now she 's just quietened again just wait until sh , there 's no noise at all from up there , give it another ten minutes . |
| 17 | Actually , Rose , could you give it another ten minutes , because Nicole will probably come round , and then we 'll make a big pot of tea for all of us . |
| 18 | But it does n't , it just does Is it forty thirty degrees ? |
| 19 | John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar . |
| 20 | When captain Alan McDonald made it 2-0 seven minutes before half-time , the Irish looked to be well in charge . |
| 21 | she does n't need one , she wo n't be able to use it ninety four pounds |
| 22 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 23 | His son , Li Yuan , had seen it all five years before , in those first few days after he had been told the secret of their world — the Great Lie upon which everything was built . |
| 24 | A carefully targeted marketing plan ensured Balbirnie House an occupancy rate of over 50% during it first 18 months of business . |
| 25 | Am I right in saying is it one million hectares out of a thousand million hectares are actually sustainable at present . |
| 26 | Belarus has persuaded Moscow to sell it 16 million tonnes of oil this year — almost as much as the 20 million tonnes Russia will supply to Ukraine , whose economy and energy needs are much bigger . |
| 27 | But why is it fifteen hundred pounds ? |
| 28 | If I had the chance I 'd watch it twenty four hours a day ! |
| 29 | It takes it twenty four hours to turn round . |
| 30 | But that were nowt to do with it twenty four hours later . |