Example sentences of "and [num] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 2 | , Henry Ernest ( 1845–1906 ) , landscape gardener , was born 18 April 1845 in Liverpool , the eldest of five sons and eleven children of Edward Milner [ q.v. ] and his wife Elizabeth Mary Kelly . |
| 3 | Two hundred and fifty children were moved to St Felix 's Girls School in Southwold , where the staff gave up their holiday to help look after their guests . |
| 4 | And these are things like thalidomide , that of course everybody knows about , and of course , tragic and terrible as it was , the fact is that it affected just four hundred and fifty children . |
| 5 | Of the 750 Nez Perce that had left Idaho , 120 had died , and 87 men , 184 women and 147 children surrendered under Joseph , with 11500 horses and 300 saddles ; 180 whites had been killed in the campaign , with 150 wounded . |
| 6 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 7 | The same was true of the enormously influential Bridget of Sweden who , despite an early marriage and eight children , lived an increasingly ascetic and religious life to which she devoted herself completely at her husband 's death . |
| 8 | More than 50 adults arrested and 140 children taken in for questioning after raids across France on outlawed Children of God sect which preaches free love for all ages . |
| 9 | Two hundred and forty one adults were known to be active smokers and 261 children passive smokers . |
| 10 | For example , in 1990 there were 1,694 pedestrian deaths on our roads and 367 children died . |
| 11 | A questionnaire circulated by the Friends has identified one hundred and forty children living close to the school whose parents would wish nursery provision for them . |
| 12 | During the whole anniversary season , buy a Family Ticket ( 2 adults and 2 children aged 5–16 years ) and spend a whole day exploring the Railway for only £19 ! |
| 13 | After the strike 14 women and 2 children were released . |
| 14 | This study reviewed the records of 100 Tanner stages 1 and 2 children ( 66 males , 34 females ) consecutively diagnosed with Crohn 's disease at this hospital between January 1980 and June 1988 . |
| 15 | In October 1913 the institution housed 206 people , made up of 107 men , 87 women and 12 children . |
| 16 | Only eight and 12 children respectively received nutritional treatment for varying intervals during years one and two . |
| 17 | We evaluated serum neutralising antibody responses in 368 children aged 6 months and 346 children aged 9 months in Coôte d'Ivoire who had previously received three doses of OPV at 2 , 3 , and 4 months of age , and who were then randomised to receive a supplemental dose of OPV or enhanced-potency inactivated poliovirus vaccine ( IPV ) at the time of measles vaccination . |
| 18 | Following his death in suspicious circumstances in 1972 , his widow and six children , together with a female cousin , ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 19 | Mother , father and six children set off first by train in open cattle trucks . |
| 20 | I squeezed between them and turned round to greet a woman and six children in the back . |
| 21 | Six families were selected , of whom four attended the afternoon programme ; a total of six adults — two of whom were single parents — and six children were involved . |
| 22 | Portago , Nelson , five adults and six children were killed , and that was enough for officials to call a halt to the race . |
| 23 | Interestingly , in our Hemingway passage , there are no definite articles conditioned by previous mention — although the mention of a father and six children might justify the use of the family . |
| 24 | , Edward ( 1819–1884 ) , gardener , was born 20 January 1819 in Darley , Derbyshire , the eldest of the two sons and six children of Henry Milner , sawyer and later gardener , and his wife Mary Scales . |
| 25 | As Mrs Pember Reeves commented : ‘ To manage a husband and six children in three rooms on round about a pound a week needs , first and foremost , wisdom and loving kindness , and after that as much cleanliness and order as can be squeezed in ’ . |
| 26 | Derry Holmes his wife and six children were on board the Celtic Pride Ferry when it made what was only it 's second voyage . |
| 27 | He was popular as a man of the people who toured Mexico with his wife and 10 children in a mobile home during the presidential campaign , a very different strategy from the typically aloof approach of the PAN 's other wealthy and middle-class leaders . |
| 28 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 29 | The first forcible repatriations to Vietnam under a new accord signed by the United Kingdom and Vietnamese governments on May 12 [ see p. 38912 ] took place on June 19 , when 28 Vietnamese adults and 10 children deemed to be " economic migrants " were sent back from Hong Kong . |
| 30 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |