Example sentences of "[det] [num] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has some 70 inhabitants and it has no shop and no public house . |
| 2 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 3 | Shortens the route by some two miles though it involves going slightly higher than the main route . |
| 4 | At Abu Hamed the river turns back on itself and runs south-west for some 200 miles before it turns again and reasserts its northerly course . |
| 5 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 6 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 7 | In some ways , a comparison between Nissan and Toyota in America and Nissan in Britain reveals as much about those two countries as it does about the firms . |
| 8 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |