Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [num] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 2 | And a study in the 1940s reported that one person in every five over sixty was receiving some form of financial support from a son or a daughter . |
| 3 | The Department admitted that seven questions in the original specimen were ‘ too difficult ’ . |
| 4 | GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped . |
| 5 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 6 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 7 | Habré stated that five seats in the National Assembly would be allocated to women who had achieved the highest number of votes as runners-up , to join the two women who had succeeded in being elected . |
| 8 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 9 | This in essence meant that one digit in a sequence ( usually 9 or Z ) was used solely for the purpose of continuing that sequence further if new editions needed to be made . |
| 10 | He felt that two hours in the morning and one hour at night was the appropriate assistance . |
| 11 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 12 | This means that one product in a line is reduced to below-cost levels with the aim of attracting attention to the product line or range as a whole . |
| 13 | In July 1982 it was estimated that 300,000 people in the UK suffered from tinnitus which interfered with their ability to lead normal lives . |
| 14 | The Royal College of Physicians has estimated that 100,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking each year [ 7 ] . |
| 15 | A report in The Northern Echo on Wednesday said that 438 pigs in the Wear Valley were condemned as unfit for human consumption in November and December . |
| 16 | Independent research by economic consultants Pieda estimates that 71,000 jobs in the UK are currently dependent upon a viable Scotch Whisky Industry . |
| 17 | The players at Bridgetown , and the umpires , took that to mean that 90 overs in a day would be reduced by time in proportion to wickets take ; i.e. eight wickets=16 minutes=four overs=a minimum of 86 overs for the day . |