Example sentences of "it now [vb -s] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ?
2 However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market .
3 It now has a presence in three of the five New England states .
4 With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity .
5 With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity .
6 In the small business area , the company is passing customers on to resellers — it now has a network of 29 independent businesses that exclusively sell its hardware and products , and some 300 employees have transferred to these German partners .
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