Example sentences of "[conj] [num] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I mean I 'm , I quite often use that as spendable income , because if I allow it to accumulate in a gross account , in a year or two it 's actually gone beyond the |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ said Ratagan , ‘ for the next day or two it seems hardly likely that I will be wetting my throat at all , so perhaps it is just as well I indulged in a draught or three last night . ’ |
| 3 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 4 | Local training is to be improved by the LDDC , but between 1981 and 1987 it spent only £2.2 million on its two major initiatives , neither of which deals with the over twenty-fives ( Docklands Consultative Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) . |