Example sentences of "had [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard declared ‘ No Smoking ’ throughout ; but Laura , pragmatic as ever , rather than countermanding him , simply had fifty ashtrays placed strategically around the château . |
| 2 | But I remember one time one week , I had fifty cases of oranges in . |
| 3 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 4 | Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back . |
| 5 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 6 | The LAPD had 7,000 officers , albeit better trained , with an air fleet of eighteen helicopters , a budget of over $400 million and an arsenal the teenagers in the gangs could never match . |
| 7 | The Guardian had 75 stories . |
| 8 | Earlier yesterday , in the first visit by a US secretary of state to Beirut in ten years , he had 75 minutes of talks with Lebanon 's president , Elias Hrawi , prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , and foreign minister , Fares Bouez . |
| 9 | In the Chamber of the People 101 seats were reserved for the Czech Republic and 49 for the Slovak Republic ; in the Chamber of Nations each republic had 75 seats . |
| 10 | The Aztec calendar had 365 days but these were divided up into 18 months of 20 days each , plus five ‘ unlucky ’ days . |
| 11 | Owned by Tom Clyne , who also won the last sprint on Saturday night with Clydal Chief , Pal had 2.1/2 lengths to spare from Stormhill Echo . |
| 12 | He said that on that day he had 70 pupils at the West Lothian college and Oatridge agricultural college , and the links between the colleges were excellent . |
| 13 | If she was right , they had 2,700 kilometres , or about 1,700 miles in which to make up the leeway . |
| 14 | Early in 1921 the ex-absolutists of the NCF established the No More War Movement , which had 3000 members in 1927 and continued to play a role on the pacifist left until it merged into the Peace pledge Union ten years later . |
| 15 | Under Colonel Harrison 's supervision , treatment regimens were brought under control , and by the spring of 1916 the hospital in Le Havre had 3000 beds . |
| 16 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 17 | In terms of both household size and number of children per family ethnicity seemed more important than class , with 3.6 and 3.7 people in Welsh working class and middle class households respectively , and 6.7 and 7.1 in Bangladeshi working class and middle class households respectively ; Welsh middle and working class families had 1.5 children on average , while Bangladeshi working class averaged 3.4 and middle class 2.1 . |
| 18 | Haynes has tended to be the less adventurous of the two and does not quite have his partner 's determination to hammer the ball into a distant wall , but before the series began he had 5,340 runs at 41 , with twelve centuries , to his name all the same . |
| 19 | The Laxey wheel had 168 buckets , each holding 24 gallons . |
| 20 | He had specifically wanted somewhere with a farm and Highgrove had 410 acres ; also , to be within easy range of his friends and relatives , and again it fitted the bill . |
| 21 | The attorney-general cut off this unlikely tale : ‘ You had eleven radio-sets , sixty-six cartons of cigarettes , four hundred bars of soap , ten kilos of gold , and two hundred kilos of meat in your deep-freeze . |
| 22 | By 1980 the firm already had eleven consultants in the UK in addition to its directors , and this has since increased to twelve . |
| 23 | Her parents had eleven children legitimately and probably others besides . |
| 24 | I had erm two of my mother 's no my mother 's they were both brothers , my mother 's brothers , had eleven children each . |
| 25 | He married Elizabeth Leonie Knowles , by whom he had eleven children ; their two sons both went to Cambridge University before entering the family business , of which they later became directors . |
| 26 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 27 | Leeds parish had eleven townships and Manchester had as many as thirty ; Bradford parish covered about 40,000 acres and Halifax parish — the largest in England — was twice that size . |
| 28 | He had eleven years ' good service before the start of war . |
| 29 | A head who already had eleven years ' experience moved to a post in which he had to confront two one-time grammar schools which had been converted into comprehensive single-sex comprehensive high schools . |
| 30 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |