Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eleven minutes it looked as though the changes would work , when John headed into the net from a centre by Hulme . |
| 2 | one hour and eleven minutes it said on there |
| 3 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 4 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 5 | So , normally the boiler will malfunction on the D6 roll of a 6 , but if the Steam Tank has sustained 1 wound it will malfunction on a 5 or 6 , if it has 2 wounds it goes wrong on a 4 , 5 or 6 and so on . |
| 6 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 7 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 8 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 9 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 10 | Smith and Efford will both have to win if Labour is to secure the 326 seats it needs to form a Government with an overall majority . |
| 11 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
| 12 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 13 | Semangat " 46 , however , lost five of the 12 seats it had held , and both its deputy president , Datuk Rais Yatim , and the DAP chairman , Chen Man Hin , lost in their constituencies . |
| 14 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc is circulating a 135-page spiral-bound octavo-sized ‘ SCO Hardware Compatibility Handbook , ’ listing the 200 systems and 800 peripherals it supports and tweaking SunSoft Inc for being able to do the same for Solaris 2.0 on a single sheet of paper . |
| 15 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 16 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 17 | ‘ Now we are selling 50,000 vehicles it gives us encouragement that European consumers will forget the past and give us another chance , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 18 | The whole system is believed to be surrounded by streamers and shells of gas , and if seen from close range would be truly fascinating , though from its distance of 300 light-years it appears single in our telescopes . |
| 19 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
| 20 | In addition it has snow ( I quote Arnie Wilson ) which at its floor level of 2,494 feet it has no right to expect . |
| 21 | — despite both being besieged by jet-lag and the six hours it needed to complete their second rounds . |
| 22 | With shops closed for more than six hours it 's been a costly afternoon for businesses — but shopkeepers agree the caution is justified . |
| 23 | His letter was probably the saddest , most pathetic six paragraphs it has ever been my misfortune to read . |
| 24 | For nearly six months it had housed up to 100 people protesting against injustices ranging from human rights abuse , emigration restrictions and mistreatment by bureaucrats to unemployment , homelessness and low pensions . |
| 25 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America has announced deployment of 9.6Kbps local dial capabilities in 99 new US cities , meaning that during the last six months it has more than doubled its coverage . |
| 26 | The company says that in the last six months it has sold over 600 Ingres Search Accelerator add-on boards . |
| 27 | In dogs over three months of age , the hepatic-tracheal migration occurs less frequently , and at six months it has almost ceased . |
| 28 | DEC was trying to gain visibility last week for the 661 companies it says are porting programs over Alpha . |
| 29 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 30 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |