Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] and 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 4 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 5 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 6 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 9 | It needed 12 stitches , big ones , and three injections and it hurts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | about three years and it has bled a couple of times . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She 'd had three children and it showed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 16 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
| 17 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 21 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 22 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 23 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | I mean , you can have a an X J six running for ten seconds and it uses hardly any petrol . |
| 26 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 27 | It has some 70 inhabitants and it has no shop and no public house . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 30 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |