Example sentences of "it [was/were] reported that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
| 2 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 3 | It was reported that four people were killed . |
| 4 | On Nov. 16 Castro announced that Cuba was entering " the bicycle age " in response to the shortfalls , and it was reported that 750,000 bicycles had been ordered from China . |
| 5 | By the end of June it was reported that 3,800,000 voters had registered , out of approximately 10,000,000 people entitled to do so . |
| 6 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 7 | At the beginning of March it was reported that seven FARC guerrillas and three Brazilian soldiers had been killed in border clashes near the Brazilian town of Tabatinga in the Amazon region . |
| 8 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
| 9 | On May 15 it was reported that 201 people had died in the violence during the month so far . |
| 10 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 11 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 12 | On Jan. 24 it was reported that 28 members of the Interim Legislative Assembly had taken their seats . |
| 13 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |