Example sentences of "it [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Call it 1.5 billion years ago .
2 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 ?
3 ‘ It will be a community facility which will bring with it 30 much-needed jobs .
4 But it does n't , it just does Is it forty thirty degrees ?
5 And you do it six different ways .
6 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 .
7 When captain Alan McDonald made it 2-0 seven minutes before half-time , the Irish looked to be well in charge .
8 So we 'd get one third and then just as we were going to eat it three other people came in .
9 Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 .
10 Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 .
11 It three key resources — finances , buildings and staff — are scattered , quite literally , across the country .
12 THE Marquis continued his rich vein of form yesterday when 11/8 shot Rainbow Lake 's success at Newbury made it three winning naps in a row .
13 The coffee came and with it three more glasses of tequila .
14 she does n't need one , she wo n't be able to use it ninety four pounds
15 Er was it ninety five people er over the last year we retained .
16 The YCL internal bulletin , Communist Youth , was replaced by the weekly Challenge ; the new paper had a popular appeal which gained it 20,000 regular subscribers within two years .
17 Or was it seventy five ball ?
18 One and a half keyboard item number five and it sixty nine quid , fifty p .
19 ‘ We passed it ten li back , no ? ’
20 Leith did not like it one tiny bit .
21 He leaned forward quickly and took hold of a white bishop icing it one black square further forward , in front of his king .
22 Am I right in saying is it one million hectares out of a thousand million hectares are actually sustainable at present .
23 And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away .
24 And make it one long road of shops .
25 I wrote it one late evening , sitting at my window , looking out into the rainy darkness of autumn and at the great black bulk of the cathedral :
26 As I 'm sure you 're aware , we need people on it who will give it one hundred percent … . ’
27 I think I might try it one one night , yeah ?
28 We did wonder if we would manage to find the place but we located it one wet Sunday afternoon .
29 The light was fading on the walls of the Imperial city ; I gave it one last look and came , reluctantly , to sit at the table .
30 If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle .
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