Example sentences of "having [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , black married women stopped having so many children ; black unmarried women continued to have them as before . |
| 2 | Vic tried to argue that it did n't make any difference how many toilets you had , it was the number of times you flushed them that mattered , but his father was convinced that having so many toilets was an incitement to unnecessary peeing , therefore to excessive flushing . |
| 3 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 4 | ‘ Why do n't they stop having so many children ? ' |
| 5 | This planet is the task master of the zodiac so your sunny nature is bound to find Saturn 's pressures and responsibilities difficult — it is no fun having so many rude awakenings about human nature . |
| 6 | ‘ It was disruptive , ’ she admits , ‘ because we kept having so many phone calls which meant that the staff got involved , together with the photocopying and sending out documents . |
| 7 | Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time . |
| 8 | It must be wondered whether Eubank is jaded through having so many fights at a high level in such a short time . |
| 9 | Allison and Ronnie were devastated at losing their ‘ special ’ baby and the strain of having so many miscarriages was beginning to take its toll on their marriage . |
| 10 | Desirable though the four parters might be story-wise , both Whitaker and Verity Lambert recognised the expense overheads in having so many ‘ first nights ’ ( ie : new serials with new props , sets , cast , etc . ) . |
| 11 | Having so many bends and so much climbing in the thin air however , it is quite demanding on vehicle and driver . |
| 12 | And the union had the meeting and the union went and told the boss that we 're having so many more men here and that was it you see . |
| 13 | He never found the proximity of women offensive or objectionable , which was probably due to Pershti 's gentle influence ( she had not been Shannish ) , but it took Lucien a while to overcome a feeling of discomfort , having so many of them around him . |
| 14 | ‘ Having so many Subject Assessors in at one time did prove disruptive ! ’ admitted Depute Principal Roy Beavis . |
| 15 | The rest of the afternoon we spent shopping and taking in the experience of having so many shops and stalls under one roof There were all types to browse in from clothes , stationery , crafts and food as well as many others . |
| 16 | They discovered that people in poor countries persisted in having so many children because they wanted them . |
| 17 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 18 | The whole of the party were in excellent health and had well tried each others stamina in walking up mountains etc. etc. but having so many interesting objects in view they had allowed no difficulty or danger to impede their progress . |
| 19 | Him having so many dear friends and everything . |
| 20 | Well I ca n't remember having so many councillors have all spoken at one evening . |
| 21 | It 's an expensive business having so many children … the weekly shopping list includes a hundred and twenty five pounds of potatoes , twenty one loaves of bread and seventy pints of milk . |
| 22 | Even so , with members of the cast having so many other commitments it 's been difficult to get everyone together . |
| 23 | ‘ Israel , ’ says one senior official , ‘ has never been interested in emigration as such , but in aliya — in having as many Jews as possible come to Israel . ’ |
| 24 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 25 | For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week . |
| 26 | Catfish , more than any fish , grow such whiskers in a most spectacular way , some species having as many as six sprouting from their upper and lower jaws . |
| 27 | Small towns dominated the early modern landscape with England having as many as 600 small towns in the 18th century , playing a vital part in the economic and social life a major proportion of the population . |
| 28 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 29 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 30 | Mr Suharto has been criticised for having too many Christians in his circle , among them the defence minister , some of his economic advisers and Chinese tycoons who control four-fifths of the country 's private industry . |