Example sentences of "it [adj] [num] [noun] " 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 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 3 | Call it 1.5 billion years ago . |
| 4 | OPEC 's overall average production in March had been 23,200,000 bpd , according to Subroto , although some industry estimates put it nearer 23,500,000 bpd . |
| 5 | Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ? |
| 6 | in it awful seventeen years |
| 7 | We 'll get it right one day . |
| 8 | Bomber Command got it right two weeks later ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Is it this one mummy ? |
| 11 | And I thi and erm I think west was seven , and that 's only five centimetres , so I extended it another two centimetres . |
| 12 | ‘ Let them leave it another two weeks to make the two months , ’ he advised . |
| 13 | We spent a wonderful week together and have agreed we wo n't leave it another eight years before we meet again . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Give it another fifty years or so , and one should then be able to understand much more the system . |
| 16 | Give it another twenty years and there wo n't be people left who remember . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll give it another twenty-four hours , and see what the British come up with , ’ said Odell finally . |
| 18 | When it was nearly dark , Flavia gave it another ten minutes , another five ; five more . |
| 19 | Give it another ten minutes , make sure the top the bacon |
| 20 | I leave it another ten minutes Jean , cos I |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it does n't , it just does Is it forty thirty degrees ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When captain Alan McDonald made it 2-0 seven minutes before half-time , the Irish looked to be well in charge . |
| 26 | she does n't need one , she wo n't be able to use it ninety four pounds |
| 27 | Er was it ninety five people er over the last year we retained . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You see trouble is you wo n't get it all one way . |
| 30 | Or is it all one word ? |