Example sentences of "its [noun] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished . |
| 2 | The jury returned its verdict over five hours deliberation . |
| 3 | An exception was Italy which slowly and reluctantly adopted Gothic tenets but , in contrast , was the originator of the Renaissance , establishing its forms nearly two centuries before England , which was another exception . |
| 4 | 9.15.3 any notice or document shall also be sufficiently served if sent by telex [ telephonic facsimile transmission or any other means of electronic transmission ] to the party to be served ( or its solicitors where 9.15.2 applies ) and that service shall be deemed to be made on the day of transmission if transmitted before 4 pm on a Working Day but otherwise on the next following Working Day ( as defined above ) and in this clause " party " includes the Guarantor These provisions are designed to introduce certainty to the service of notices and documents and , unless a particular tenant takes exception to any aspect , they do not seem unreasonable . |
| 5 | We shall not ask the committee to raise it , but with or without its help , and its help of course will be welcome , we shall find roughly in its neighbourhood either one new group to commit itself to raise £1,000 ( or two new groups to raise £500 each ) . |
| 6 | Immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridisation were done with polyclonal antisera to ET-1 and its precursor big ET-1 , and complementary RNA probes for preproET-1 . |
| 7 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 8 | In 1801 , Rev Warner of Bath visited : ‘ New Mills belongs to Messrs. Austin , and employs under its roof about 195 men , women and children … |
| 9 | But martial arts historians tend to believe that it has its origins almost 5,000 years ago . |
| 10 | As for the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia , it claimed its independence about 247 B.C. and made good its word . |
| 11 | At its inception only seven senior officers were involved , to assist the Chief Officer who had been delegated particular functions by the Council , and to act as a senior management team . |
| 12 | The bank depreciates its PCs over five years , giving the IT department greater incentive to reallocate rather than junk older PCs , perhaps pointing to the role of the accountant in determining a modular policy . |
| 13 | However , as referred to above , Schedule 4 of the National Audit Act 1983 specifically excluded from its provisions over 20 nationalized industries and other public bodies . |
| 14 | In The Reversing Earth Warlow tried to prove that , during the last 13,000 or so years , the Earth has flipped over on its axis about five times . |
| 15 | It was shorn of its sails around 1805 and with added battlements , became the ‘ Signal Tower ’ . |
| 16 | " In 1857 , in [ Iaroslavl' , ] a province that covered almost 14,000 square miles and sheltered more than 950,000 people , the Ministry of Internal Affairs had at its disposal only 244 policemen " . |
| 17 | its round about ten to eleven , i n't it love , last bus usually ? |
| 18 | For example , the smallest mammal , the shrew , lives its life about 30 times faster than the elephant . |
| 19 | Although the Spanish fleet numbered around 49 ships of the line , including those inadequately manned for sea , and its army perhaps 70,000 men , their part in his plan was purely diversionary , to invade Portugal , a traditional ally of England . |
| 20 | WIC , which has stakes in several regional brewers , also has to comply with the orders , which require it to reduce its stakes below 15 per cent . |
| 21 | North-western Iran was hit at 2.50 a.m. local time on June 21 by a major earthquake , measuring between 7.3 and 7.7 on the Richter scale , with its epicentre about 190 km north-west of Tehran under the Caspian Sea . |
| 22 | In the first year of its operation only 5 per cent of polytechnic and college funding was allocated on the basis of competitive bidding , but the proportion is expected to be increased to 10 per cent in 1991 and further increases in subsequent years can be anticipated . |
| 23 | In southern Italy and its islands about 600,000 hectares of trees — or about a third of the modest total still standing in those desiccated landscapes — disappeared between 1860 and 1911 . |
| 24 | Since its introduction over 15 years ago , Regina Royal Jelly has become an indispensable part of the health and beauty regime for women of all ages . |
| 25 | At its height over 200 people were employed . |
| 26 | Their press network , built up from 1917 on , had fluctuated in extent with the fortunes of the Civil War , but at its end nearly sixty papers in various national languages had been set up . |
| 27 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 28 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 29 | Though the vessel does not have an engine or a conventional rudder , it has been equipped with a thruster unit to give some manoeuvrability in the rare event of it going adrift from its location about two miles from the Alba platform . |
| 30 | Ridgewell considered that this decrease began about 1952 and it apparently reached its maximum about 1961 , when no breeding Sparrowhawks were reported from anywhere in the county . |