Example sentences of "[num] men [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 2 | The easiest part of the scheme was the raising of the six companies of 70–110 men each , increased in 1739 to ten , and as a concession to national sentiment the new units were allowed to wear the kilt ; its dark tartan , of blue , green and black , soon gave them a distinctive name : the Black Watch . |
| 3 | The total establishment , of 327 regular soldiers , included 24 companies , of 12 men each , to serve as a cadre for the expected flow of Highlander recruits , along with 19 officers , ranging in rank from a lieutenant-colonel , with six captains , lieutenants and ensigns respectively . |
| 4 | Five samples of 100 men each — probably not chosen at random — showed that 2–6% of Chiang Mai 's male population carry the virus . |
| 5 | About 10,500 men each year die less than two years after their retirement . |
| 6 | Appointed by John Kennedy , he had spent 31 years on the court ; only three men this century have served longer . |
| 7 | In XVIII Corps , the three Hessian regiments of the brigade that had overwhelmed Driant in the Bois des Caures had also lost over a thousand men each . |
| 8 | Six ships — sixty men each — just carry oatmeal — Cameron cattle are aye fat … |
| 9 | He moved the most experienced soldiers in two squads of twenty-five men each , and deployed them to make a wedge within the stockade , their lines defending its walls , the point of the wedge facing the valley formed by the stream below the hot springs . |
| 10 | There were nine men that year who had run faster than 10.2 seconds . |
| 11 | There were five men this time — Amundsen , Bjaaland , Wisting , Hassel , and Hanssen . |
| 12 | They may attack 30000 men each year in Britain . |
| 13 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 14 | The two men each have 19 points and it promises to be a very hard fought five-race series . |
| 15 | But a minute later she saw him again — and there were two men this time . |
| 16 | Armed police were hunting two men this afternoon after a Securicor van was held-up outside Abbey National in Broad Lane , Norris Green . |
| 17 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 18 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 19 | The lament is being played for the old military musical structure after the study found many could not even meet the required level of 20 men each and their music was suffering . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that it kills 8 000 men each year — four times as many people as die from cervical cancer — it is under-recognised and under-researched . |