Example sentences of "[prep] [num] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to employee benefit specialists , Mercer Fraser , the cost of providing a creche for 75 children would be £590,966 in the first year with an ongoing cost of £290,966 a year . |
| 2 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 3 | The nursery is situated at 79 and 81 Dalkeith Road and is registered for 18 children aged from 6 weeks to 2 years and for 30 children aged from 2 to 5 years old . |
| 4 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 5 | Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before . |
| 6 | Disadvantages : You may find yourself doing ‘ unfair swaps ’ ( ie , you 'll look after three children who are still playing wargames at 10pm , while the exchange sit involves watching TV while your baby sleeps peacefully ) ; if the circle is big , you may find you 're leaving your children with a virtual stranger ; you may also find that the circle involves a male babysitter ( see overleaf ) . |
| 7 | Grace was juggling a full-time job with looking after three children when she got the idea to set up her business . |
| 8 | When she set sail for her homeland in 1952 Eva and another Australian girl were given the job of looking after twelve children from the Fairbridge Society on the voyage . |
| 9 | DRUG ALERT AFTER FIVE CHILDREN DIE |
| 10 | Up to about 1730 family portraits are formally posed groups ; increasingly , however , after 1730 children are shown playing or reading or sketching or fishing or picnicking with their parents — family scenes of mutual pleasure and enjoyment , and ones which the parents wanted recorded . |
| 11 | Government inspectors are to investigate Rochdale Social Services after twenty children were taken into care following allegations of ritualistic abuse . |
| 12 | It left Mrs Adams to look after four children aged from 9 years to just 10 months . |
| 13 | For a working mother the hours can be long , but a trusted nanny takes care of her two toddlers , and Parkin finds both her husband and the firm very supportive : ‘ I 'm still here after two children . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We have smaller classes and we buy in individual music tuition for 100 children . |
| 15 | ‘ Each ticket purchased for the ball will help Childline cover costs to provide half-an-hour 's counselling for 10 children — half-an-hour which could change a child 's life . ’ |
| 16 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 17 | They found positive results in 21 of 70 children with diarrhoea . |
| 18 | Between 1984 and 1988 , the period examined in the report , a yearly average of 70 children with English as a second language were in special needs education . |
| 19 | Between 1984 and 1988 , the period examined in the report , a yearly average of 70 children with English as a second language were in special needs education . |
| 20 | On the outbreak of war , a transport of 180 children was left stranded in Prague . |
| 21 | One of eleven children , he had been brought up in poverty . |
| 22 | The reason for this decline seems to be twofold in light of the fact that families were much larger in Tennyson 's day ( he himself was one of eleven children ) , and that several dwellings have disappeared from the hamlet over the years . |
| 23 | I was born in December 1962 , the seventh of eleven children , eight of whom were boys . |
| 24 | As the father of eleven children ( laughter and applause ) — I have not been a disciple of Dr Malthus but you will clearly understand that , while I appreciate the ladies , I am strongly of the opinion that they have their proper station in life ( Hear ! |
| 25 | She was a very thrifty woman because in spite of eleven children we never wanted for anything and you went through a depression like , you know . |
| 26 | , Asplan ( 1841–1912 ) , marine engineer , was born in Bluntisham , Huntingdonshire , 5 October 1841 , one of a family of eleven children of William Beldam and his wife Mary Peat . |
| 27 | Ermentrude faithfully performed the crucial function of a royal wife in producing a total of eleven children , and as late as 866 , she was still ready to produce more . |
| 28 | Peter Kent was born here , the youngest of eleven children . |
| 29 | The efficacy of metronidazole and amoxicillin has recently been assessed in a group of 32 children with non-specific abdominal pain and H pylori gastritis . |
| 30 | Thus , with a group of 32 children you 'll have eight evenly balanced groups of four . |