Example sentences of "it in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was four men do it in twelve hours , how many in two . |
| 2 | If she could have walked it in five minutes , then the cab should have done it in less , but it seemed a long five minutes before it stopped again and the cab driver opened the door , saying , ‘ Here we are then , lass . ’ |
| 3 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Wh whilst that 's being done , can I just add that do n't feel inhibited ab I want you to make your best case , but I mean you know , if if you can make it in five minutes instead of half an hour then nothing will be lost in that . |
| 5 | One no I 've got it in five whoops . |
| 6 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 7 | But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever . |
| 8 | Erm you know , five years hence , we do n't want it in five years hence , we want it the end of this year , early next year . |
| 9 | So what have we done , we 've put the money into ten lots of five pound now okay so we got fifty pounds let's say we had it in five pound notes . |
| 10 | And they do it in five seconds now ! ’ |
| 11 | you 've got to do it in four minutes |
| 12 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 13 | The look of a winner , but will he still have it in four years ' time ? |
| 14 | What 's that make it in four weeks ? |
| 15 | The meteorology men told him his wind strengths at his chosen altitude of 50,000 feet , and he worked out he would make it in 5.4 hours flying at Mach . |
| 16 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 17 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 18 | Parker downed it in one swallow . |
| 19 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 20 | But I said to Brian , if we can have it say for a Saturday , and make sure you do it in one day . |
| 21 | That 's it in one word — John Smith , surely the next leader of the Labour Party , has gravitas the way other people have niceness . |
| 22 | However , there is a tip to erm , you can do it in one operation . |
| 23 | So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign . |
| 24 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 25 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 26 | It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another . |
| 27 | First they happen in June that 's that 's a good starter for one , and they 're really not that big a problem and I guess people in London would just laugh at the prospect of the noise which which May Balls cause and not worry about it in one way and would not have telephone calls to the local council and lots of stories in my newspaper every year . |
| 28 | It was customary to fly a flag at half-mast when anyone connected with the May weekend died so , not to be beaten , committee members managed to obtain a telegraph pole , paint and erect it in one weekend so that old Amos would not be cheated of this sign of respect . |
| 29 | ‘ If I had to drive back to Tangier now , I 'd do it in one go . |
| 30 | And then I finished it in one go . |