Example sentences of "have had a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since then Mrs Miniver has had a number of other narrow escapes in life , as well ! ’ |
| 2 | Bingham has had a number of options available over the last year but always contended that Rogan , irrespective of his omission , was still very much part of the set-up . |
| 3 | In this respect MI6 has had a number of successes although it is difficult to know how useful defectors really are ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 4 | The Red Lion Milford Street façade has changed little over the years but the adjoining shop at the Catherine Street corner has had a number of owners in different retail trades . |
| 5 | The invasion of China by western culture has had a number of far-reaching effects on Confucianism . |
| 6 | She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain . |
| 7 | On the other hand , they appreciate that the job has had a number of new tasks grafted onto it , adding to its scope and variety . |
| 8 | She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has had a number of discussions with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and others , and he will be announcing a package of measures later this afternoon . |
| 10 | The use of computers in cartography has had a number of effects ; first of all , cartography as a discipline has become more independent of geography . |
| 11 | She 'd had a number of the wives in tonight , all choosing bits and pieces out of their Christmas Club money . |
| 12 | Francis said : ‘ We should have had a number of free-kicks in dangerous areas that could have produced things but they were n't given . ’ |
| 13 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 14 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 15 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 16 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 17 | In the year 1981/82 it became clear that the evaluation project had had a number of ‘ spin-offs ’ , for instance : |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 19 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 20 | ‘ It may happen anyway — Portsmouth are good enough to get promotion this year and we 've had a number of really impressive wins . ’ |
| 21 | It 's a six and two threes we 've had a number of times . |
| 22 | Erm we 's we 've had a number of changes in the water industry over the years . |
| 23 | We 've had a number of quotations and a number of reports here . |
| 24 | The Chairman of the erm that is already occurring , we 've had a number of reports erm already er flooding is based on a tide flap system erm so those you know we 're gon na have to live with that over the years . |
| 25 | You 've had a number of questions from about whether you knew the man in the bedroom was Mr or . |
| 26 | We 've had a number of inquiries from abroad . |
| 27 | ‘ Yet I have been in the game for two decades , I 've had a number big race successes and I was even stable jockey for Vincent O'Brien for three years . |
| 28 | During this particular week , we 've had a number of speakers , guest speakers at the rostrum and there 'll be others that will follow the Reverend Jenkins to the rostrum but the working people of Durham and trade unionists and the miners in particular have very good cause to thank the Reverend David Jenkins . |
| 29 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 30 | Technological advances within the recording industry , although providing interesting new extensions on popular noise , have had a number of diverse effects . |