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Example sentences of "it [verb] some [num] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In about May 1977 he formed a company called Yash Pal Kansal & Co. , which flourished until by 1983 it operated some 20 chemist shops .
2	It represents some 25 per cent .
3	We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] .
4	It lies some five miles north of Manchester .
5	It covers some 400 of the biggest bank takeovers between 1922 and 1988 .
6	It has some 2,100 commercial system integrators , OEMs , master resellers and value-added resellers restructured into those four categories .
7	It has some 70 inhabitants and it has no shop and no public house .
8	It has some 20,000 prints and drawings of a topographical nature , and about 3000 broadsheets , some as old as 600 years .
9	It has some forty inlaid black opals and similar gemstones , each worth 10 GCs .
10	‘ It defends some hundreds of jobs and it 's a good example of how European action can produce results .
11	‘ It defends some hundreds of jobs , and it 's a good example of how European action can produce results .
12	It contains some three hundred separate measures aimed at breaking down barriers within Europe .
13	Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars .
14	The engine was originally installed at Godwins Engineering Works at Quenington in Gloucestershire where it drove some 400 yards ( 369 metres ) of line shafting , powering the entire factory .
15	The Trust has already obtained such permission once , when in February 1986 it divested some 21 per cent of its holding in Wellcome .
16	It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building .
17	The identification of the so-called Jurassic Way was always based on the very flimsy evidence that it linked some six or seven Iron Age sites .
18	It takes some 5 or 6 years for a nest to produce sexual insects , so that it would appear that the complete defoliation of the immediate area or the removal of the more palatable species would lead to deteriorating conditions for the ants .
19	A private concern , it employed some fifty men , mostly tradesmen , fitters or winders , and two apprentices — lads of around Anton 's age with fathers working for the firm .
20	It covered some 2,000 establishments in all sectors of the economy .
21	By 1982 it covered some 500 acres .
22	It covered some 1000 sq.km and stood at 393 metres below sea level in the 1930s .
23	It lists some 50 key precursor chemicals that should be tightly controlled .
24	In the course of the day the UK government announces increases in base rate from 10 to 12 , and then to 15 per cent effective Sept. 17 , in unsuccessful efforts to defend the value of sterling , then withdraws sterling from the ERM , allowing its value to " float " ( as a result of which it falls some 10 per cent against the deutschmark to below DM2.52 by the end of September ) , and cuts base rate to 12 per cent .
25	There , it gathered some 250 faithful for a report on New Hampshire and , more important , for an intense fundraising pitch .
26	It took some three years of war before the political spotlight began to play on employment plans .
27	It won some 70 per cent of the vote , compared with 20 per cent for the Liberal Party ( which had previously held the seat ) and only 5 per cent for the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) .
28	In California , it extends some 400 km along the coast from Sonoma County to Eureka .
29	How long he survived his restoration is not certainly known for Northumbrian regnal tradition retained no memory of Eardwulf 's second reign , but there is a possibility that it lasted some three or four years ( see below , p. 196 ) .
30	It claims some 3,000 jobs in construction would reduce to 1,000 full-time jobs when the construction phase is over : the local area has a 30 per cent male unemployment rate .