Example sentences of "[verb] had a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel very proud that Dounreay has had a two year advantage in setting up this system . ’ |
| 2 | The course providers , Safety Audit Services has had a 100 per cent pass rate to date on previous NEBOSH courses , which we are confident they will maintain on the Wood Group in-house course . |
| 3 | The centre has had a 90 per cent occupancy rate in the past two years but this has suddenly dropped to 65 per cent , according to area manager Eddie Killoran . |
| 4 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 5 | Victor had bragged , absurdly , that he 'd had a five a.m. rendezvous with her at a private house in Cadogan Square , just before her flight to Poland , and that ‘ the earth had moved ’ . |
| 6 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 7 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 8 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 9 | For example , in 1851 just after the railway came , Macclesfield was larger than Coventry , Halifax or York , having had a 160 per cent increase in population in the previous forty years . |
| 10 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 11 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
| 12 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 13 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |
| 14 | Except they 'll have had a four course meal to eat . |
| 15 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 16 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 17 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 18 | The slave trade may be considered , like the fabulous hydra , to have had a hundred heads , every one of which it was necessary to cut off before it could be subdued . |
| 19 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 20 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 21 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 22 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 23 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 24 | We 'd played with Ray Floyd who had had a 78 on the first day . |
| 25 | He was relatively cheerful and uncomplaining for a man who had had a 40 minute operation to join his fractured kneecap and a severed tendon together again . |
| 26 | Which is a lot is n't it really , once we come down to it , you know we 've had a two solid hours of what God has been trying to teach us today . |
| 27 | Three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teachers ' salary costs basically will fall down given that we 've had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year , coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with . |
| 28 | Well we 've had a eighteen month old . |
| 29 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 30 | Down the Boarman they 've had a three , three offers of Hamper Agency for next year . |