Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 2 | The only ‘ clean ’ greyhound in the race , run at Canterbury this month , was the 5–2 favourite and it finished last . |
| 3 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 4 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 5 | She added : ‘ Some of this graffiti appeared within 30 minutes after it had been cleaned . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her . ’ |
| 7 | It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her , ’ said the millionaire producer . |
| 8 | The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end . |
| 9 | ONE HUNDRED and forty years after it vanished from Windsor Castle in mysterious circumstances , a pornographic drawing of an hermaphrodite angel by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in Germany . |
| 10 | FIGHTER COLLECTION flew their P-38 Lightning back to Duxford from Lydd on Monday September 28 , 22 days after it came to grief in a belly landing at Lydd Airport , en route to the Shepway Seafront Airshow on September 6 ( FP October , p6 ) . |
| 11 | While other European Community countries are increasingly aware of the vulnerability of land , however , Britain 's pioneering national field-by-field soil survey remains incomplete , 53 years after it began . |
| 12 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 13 | In July , a US warship in the Pacific warned an Australian airliner carrying 300 passengers that it faced ‘ hostile action . ’ |
| 14 | Rare Bear had melted the piston in the No 2 cylinder and it looked like the rod in the No 1 cylinder had bent , tilting the entire jug about four or five degrees . |
| 15 | ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin . |
| 16 | Its molecular weight is about 95000 Daltons and it consists of two subunits : a larger alpha subunit with several membrane spanning domains and a smaller beta subunit . |
| 17 | In any event you should ensure that your dog poses no threat to human health by deworming it every six months once it has reached this age . |
| 18 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 19 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 20 | The time limit can be extended by a further six months if it appears to be ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 27 | A man who allowed a greyhound to suffer for six weeks after it broke its leg has been banned from keeping dogs for three years . |
| 28 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 29 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 30 | This means that , should the project have a successful outcome , there is a 0.9 chance that the additional research supported this outcome and 0.1 chance that it did not . |