Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has some 70 inhabitants and it has no shop and no public house . |
| 2 | The time limit can be extended by a further six months if it appears to be ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so . |
| 3 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 4 | Shortens the route by some two miles though it involves going slightly higher than the main route . |
| 5 | At Abu Hamed the river turns back on itself and runs south-west for some 200 miles before it turns again and reasserts its northerly course . |
| 6 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 7 | A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence . |
| 8 | In some ways , a comparison between Nissan and Toyota in America and Nissan in Britain reveals as much about those two countries as it does about the firms . |
| 9 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 10 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
| 11 | The headline is that the budget for ninety four ninety five is two point two million pounds and that 's an increase of eighty four thousand pounds or four percent on the original budget for current year and that increase of eighty four thousand pounds and it 's split into three elements for you . |
| 12 | So your engine 's doing about four thousand revs and it 's geared down like mad and your tanker is just creeping so you can hardly see |
| 13 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 14 | Erm I would hesitate before offering the chairman or the committee the contract , er the contract for Eurofighter actually runs to thirty four books and it stands about that high and er . |
| 15 | On the technology transfer er I do n't think that there will be any income this year , if there is it will be quite modest , we 're talking about three to four million dollars and it 's related to follow-up payments for training . |
| 16 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 17 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 18 | erm most of them have n't heard much from their families , no news at all , for the last six months and it 's been very difficult for us . |
| 19 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 20 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 21 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 22 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 23 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 24 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 25 | The white-and-red type remained unchanged for the next two centuries and it has elements of common origin with the Ayrshire of Scotland ( which is basically white with brown markings , especially on the neck and face ) . |
| 26 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |