Example sentences of "it [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 2 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 3 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 4 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | Question , you go to see Mr. and Mrs. Client tonight , and they need , let's say they need a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover , and to fit their lifestyle , or their children , their family , they need it for eighteen years , they ca n't afford that . |
| 6 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 7 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 8 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 9 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 10 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 11 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 12 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 13 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 14 | No sound had emerged from it for six months : spare parts were hard to get , Dynmouth Hi-Fi Boutique informed him . |
| 15 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 16 | So we 're giving em it for six months . |
| 17 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 18 | But we do n't know how long it 'll be , before get any money coming in , and if you go on to family credit , you get it for six months , so that 'll be our wages . |
| 19 | I got it for six months , te |
| 20 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 21 | And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds . |
| 22 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 23 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 24 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 25 | The result was the partnership which bought Twr-y-Felin in St David 's and ran it for 18 months until Phil moved on to pursue other interests . |
| 26 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 27 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 28 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 29 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 30 | ‘ From now on , ’ the guard informed him , ‘ you will be confined to this room and no one will enter it for forty-eight hours . |