Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 2 | This ascent up the levels of programming languages can go on without any natural limit : a language like LISP , when run , is normally translated through two or three levels before it becomes machine code . |
| 3 | We were in there for eight or nine hours but it seemed like days . |
| 4 | The first bird lay pinioned there for four or five seconds before it managed to break free and fly off . |
| 5 | Or it could be three or four days before it arrives . |
| 6 | We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work . |
| 7 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 8 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 9 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 10 | ONE HUNDRED and forty years after it vanished from Windsor Castle in mysterious circumstances , a pornographic drawing of an hermaphrodite angel by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in Germany . |
| 11 | It needed 12 stitches , big ones , and three injections and it hurts . |
| 12 | The 60MHz DECstation Model 260 , rated at 58 SPECint92 and 54.7 SPECfp92 comes with up to 480Mb memory and three slots and it starts at £12,800 . |
| 13 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 14 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 15 | The wind has varied for them between 20 and 40 knots and it has , in the main , blown from the west , allowing them sleigh rides down the faces of the big waves . |
| 16 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 17 | The last experiment , the post-revolutionary Constituent Assembly , lasted but 24 hours after it had tiresomely refused to recognize the authority of the Bolshevik government . |