Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 2 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 3 | It still incorporated both a zoological and a botanical garden , but now had an extensive research and teaching function . |
| 4 | Table 6.5 reveals a slight contraction in this sector during the 1970s , but nevertheless in 1980 it still represented over a third of the economically active population for the region as a whole . |
| 5 | It also had quite a large choir for so small a Church , a photo taken in the twenties showing the choir outside the old Church with Mrs Still 's husband and son . |
| 6 | It probably played only a small role in maintaining accumulation once that got going . |
| 7 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 8 | It actually tilted backwards a fraction of an inch , then righted itself again . |
| 9 | It therefore had only a limited use in the oral short term therapy of urinary tract infections . |