Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guinea-Bissau stood to gain 600 million dollars — twice its foreign debt — when it agreed to bury 15 million tons of Philadelphia 's municipal ash . |
| 2 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 3 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 4 | THAILAND 'S Foreign Ministry yesterday suffered a public relations fiasco when it failed to produce five Vietnamese soldiers it claimed had been captured inside Cambodia after Hanoi 's much-publicised troop withdrawal from Cambodia last week . |
| 5 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 6 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |
| 7 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 8 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 9 | It helped to have two such formidable singers taking the two female dragon roles : Anne Collins as a fruity Princess Clarissa , tyrannical in a general 's uniform of black leather , and Jane Eaglen as Fata Morgana , like Katisha in Mikado only more so . |
| 10 | In July , the CEGB announced that it proposed to retrofit three 2000 MW power stations with FGD between 1988 and 1997 . |
| 11 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 12 | It 's got a main street , and I think it 'd got two other streets and that 's about all and sure enough one of them was Lilac Avenue . |
| 13 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 14 | By the middle of 1984 , however , the company 's prediction had changed and it anticipated losing 50 per cent of its staff . |
| 15 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 16 | Enough of it survived to show two canthari , one of which ( pI . |
| 17 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I have n't got a grandmother but if I had one I would shoot her in the foot if it meant getting three points . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 20 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 21 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 22 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 23 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 24 | It did manage one win , though , but that was in the back of Jim Clarke 's Lotus 43 . |
| 25 | During the 1980s corporate America did pay out a large share of net profits in dividends , and it did spend billions on share repurchases . |
| 26 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 27 | Er it said produce seventy two to seventy three three , so two produces a budget of seventy two million in two b you can see but you will see in two b that we are actually saying you can have an actual sort of implemental approach which will take you up to three billion . |
| 28 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 29 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
| 30 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |