Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " 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 | ‘ It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 6 | The time limit can be extended by a further six months if it appears to be ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 12 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 13 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 14 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 15 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 16 | It needed 12 stitches , big ones , and three injections and it hurts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 19 | The court also granted a stay of proceedings for three weeks after it delivers its written judgment , in a few days , for the defence to decide whether to take its appeal to the Privy Council , the highest court to which the case can go . |
| 20 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 21 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 22 | about three years and it has bled a couple of times . |
| 23 | This ascent up the levels of programming languages can go on without any natural limit : a language like LISP , when run , is normally translated through two or three levels before it becomes machine code . |
| 24 | As part of its Micro 2000 vision — which will take its iAPX-86 family up to the end of the millennium ( UX No 289 ) — Intel Corp is now openly talking about announcing the P6 , yes , folks , the P6 at the end of next year , three quarters after it brings on the P5 . |
| 25 | Erm it 's not no , the little ones are , cos them going to be three quarters and it 's got a full skirt with a , an over panel , and she 's got frills in the back of her skirt and got an over panel over it , ca n't describe it , it is pretty , and the neck is just slightly on the edge of the shoulder , got a frill and no sleeves , and the little ones got puff sleeves and high neck . |
| 26 | The 60MHz DECstation Model 260 , rated at 58 SPECint92 and 54.7 SPECfp92 comes with up to 480Mb memory and three slots and it starts at £12,800 . |
| 27 | Well I ai n't doing sort of I ai n't doing nothing sixteen minutes until it gets back . |
| 28 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 29 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
| 30 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |