Example sentences of "which [num] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 2 | There is also a Segregation Unit , used both for punishment and to isolate men for their own protection or for other reasons ; a hospital unit , and a hostel from which eleven men can work in the town during the day , returning to the prison each night . |
| 3 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 4 | Pace Wilson 's own more dramatic account , it seems that the decision to establish the union was not formally taken until a meeting on 18 August 1887 at which forty men were present . |
| 5 | The wealthy , as if trying to secure their dead not only against body-snatchers , but against decay itself , encased them in immense coffins , lined with lead , which six men could scarcely carry , leading Dickens to write of ‘ a blind monster with twelve human legs , shuffling and blundering along . ’ |
| 6 | PILOT error was blamed yesterday for a North Sea helicopter crash in which six men were killed . |
| 7 | The Health and Safety Executive says the Bilsthorpe pit tragedy , in which three men died , was caused by old workings and waste material . |
| 8 | The Health and Safety Executive says the Bilsthorpe pit tragedy , in which three men died , was caused by old workings and waste material . |
| 9 | The Safe Supporter was the ‘ flotel ’ involved in the Cormorant Alpha helicopter disaster in March last year in which 11 men died when a flight between the rig and the accommodation vessel plunged into the sea in bad weather . |
| 10 | Recalling his comfortable officers ' quarters in the south , he commented that ‘ the ballot of the ensuing summer renewed our vigour and youth ’ , but the working-men of the north resisted having their lives interrupted and at Hexham in Northumberland a serious anti-ballot riot occurred in which 42 men were killed and another 48 wounded . |
| 11 | She smiled at him , and the others , and as the waiter appeared at her side with her coffee she was amused to see the speed at which twenty men were on their feet offering her a chair . |
| 12 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 13 | Extract ( 1 ) , in which two men discuss sex education , is much less simple . |
| 14 | A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war . |
| 15 | These attacks , plus an incident in which two men , a Briton and a Zimbabwean , were kidnapped and held for a month by the MNR in February-March , led to renewed doubts about the security of the Beira corridor between Zimbabwe and the central Mozambican port , which provided a major fuel and transport artery for Zimbabwean trade . |
| 16 | Three skinheads were arrested after burning down a hostel in Immenstadt ( Bavaria ) on Oct. 13 , as a result of which two men were injured , and 19 people were charged in Dresden on Oct. 25 in connection with the attacks in Hoyerswerda on Sept. 17-23 [ see p. 38447 ] . |
| 17 | Carl Haywood , Angus Spence and Alexander Woods appeared at Teesside Crown Court following one night in Darlington last June during which two men were assaulted and a third had his car badly damaged . |
| 18 | ARMED police yesterday searched a number of houses in Dundee after a shooting in which two men were slightly injured . |
| 19 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 20 | Within the ambit of the social guild work of his church , he planned a modest two-day holiday in Ambleside in June 1981 during which thirty men from his pastorate scaled the fells . |