Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 2 | It formed one more effort , renewed over the next decade , to produce a book which in the end turned into another book altogether , and which Eliot published . |
| 3 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 4 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 5 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 6 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 7 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 8 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 9 | Compared with the 1955 election , the party had 20 fewer seats in the North and 14 fewer in Scotland , conversely , it had 34 more in the South and the Midlands and 5 more in Wales . |
| 10 | Sealink released figures for their performance from June 27 to August 28 , claiming that it carried 38,493 more passengers and 10,818 more cars between Larne and Stranraer than last year . |