Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er , it lasted , I was forty seven and it did n't finish till I was about sixty ! |
| 2 | I was just there for Type ninety , and he has a wall of books in his living room that — the shells are some kind of Danish wall system from nineteen fifty-five and it seemed , you know , that the shelves were slightly saggy , a few nicks and scrapes , so it 's not new looking at all . |
| 3 | Yes wh when they reported to the committee two years ago erm I explained that there was combat modelling going on at at the time and indeed that was completed by the end of nineteen ninety two and it showed that er of all the alternatives available then Eurofighter two thousand was the most cost effective solution to the R A F's requirements and yet it would it would not be able to meet up er to the F twenty two but other than that it was superior to all other aircraft . |
| 4 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 5 | The latter survived the bombings of World War II better than it survived the ravages of time after Leonardo 's highly original method of fresco working failed to live up to its inventor 's hopes , but it still remains one of the masterpieces of Renaissance art . |
| 6 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 7 | To pay for the pits the government told British Coal not to pay four hundred and eighty one million that it owed to the staff 's superannuation fund . |
| 8 | But government figures published this summer revealed that there were 93,720 teachers in this category , 5,720 more than it had thought . |
| 9 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 10 | Er four hundred , four hundred , to , four hundreds if it 'd won , for a place he would have get less , but he was still in it it was |
| 11 | Had her ordeal come a century or two later than it did , the unsinkable Sancie would have had an uplifting view during her brief immersion , for the church and the tower of Sauveterre look especially well from down below here by the river . |
| 12 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 13 | According to estimates by the UN Commission , the UK would have to spend DM3,500 million a year to meet the new targets , or DM2,900 million more than it had planned . |