Example sentences of "and [num] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 2 | On March 5 , 1986 , the bank hired a male candidate who obtained a mark of 46.50 and subsequently it hired another six male candidates who had obtained marks between 46.50 and 42 while it did not hire the claimant , a woman who had obtained a mark of 48 . |
| 3 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 4 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 5 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 6 | Of the forty women , twenty-six claimed that they worked harder than their husbands , seven said the men worked harder , and seven that it depended on personality or on the kind of job the husband had . |