Example sentences of "[num] [conj] it has " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 2 | Sony Corp says it will reduce recruitment of new graduates next fiscal year to 500 from the 990 that it has offered jobs for the current year : it will be the second consecutive year-on-year decrease in recruitment after a peak of 1,750 in the 1992-93 fiscal year . |
| 3 | Robert 's parents , Garry and Thelma , both 26 , paid for the second operation which was carried out in November 1991 and it has proved successful . |
| 4 | The DSS established Specialist Claims Control Teams in 1980 and it has appointed over 1,000 additional social security investigators . |
| 5 | The spreadsheet at the heart of Symphony is not unlike 1-2-3 and it has almost as extensive range of commands and functions . |
| 6 | Only the United Kingdom economy performed as badly during the seventies and it has always been near the bottom of the league . |
| 7 | After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance . |
| 8 | A. griegi differs from all three because it has 2 tentacle scales on each pore , by the shape of the oral papillae and the shape of the arm spines . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ We have been here since 1986 but it has been used as a guest house since 1965 . |
| 10 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 11 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 12 | Exports to Germany have risen 18% to £1.2 billion and it has consolidated its position as Scotland 's top export market . |
| 13 | I have had to relearn the game from square one and it has increased my knowledge and understanding . |
| 14 | I bite into one and it has the bitter-sweet , almost effervescent zest of sherbet . |
| 15 | Aid trebled to US$649 million in 1987 but it has largely been directed towards relief rather than development . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're in the WH Smith Top 40 and it has only taken us four years to get there , ’ says Tom White of makers Upstarts . |
| 17 | Comprehensive Mathematics for O-level was first published in 1983 and it has been reprinted twice to date . |
| 18 | The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've examined some 13/0 and it has been good , yet I 've found some to have as low as 10.5% chrome content . |
| 20 | First models only arrived from the Kuala Lumpur factory in March 1989 but it has since doubled budgeted sales here ( topping 18,000 by the end of 1990 ) , outsold Hyundai and Seat , and has a higher market share than several more illustrious name . |
| 21 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
| 22 | It was from such lofty horizons that it was first introduced in 1839 and it has been in and out of gardens ever since . |
| 23 | The MTFS has remained a controversial strategy throughout the 1980s as it has sought to establish simple rules for the links between monetary aggregates ( such as M3 and M0 ) , interest rates and inflation . |