Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in 1979 a French survey of the world literature reported that only 430 cases of ocular , and 350 cases of visceral , larva migrans had been recorded . |
| 2 | On Feb. 14 Col. Abdullah al Kandari of the Kuwaiti air force said that over 200 people had been executed since the start of the allied bombing . |
| 3 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |
| 4 | Later investigation showed that over 1,600 cables had been damaged , a third of them concerned with safety . |
| 5 | The inquiry heard that only one suicide and no accidental drownings had happened at Bellrock Quarry before last year 's double tragedy . |
| 6 | The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 . |
| 7 | On Jan. 30 , 1990 , a Supreme Soviet Commission revealed that nearly 845,000 victims of Stalinism had been posthumously rehabilitated during 1988-89 , but called for review procedures to be streamlined . |
| 8 | This argument presumed that only one person in the family was capable of cleaning ; furthermore , that the smaller a house is , the easier it is to keep clean . |
| 9 | The chamber of trade responded that over 70 people objected to the Ivy Street scheme in a petition . |
| 10 | HP boasted that over 100 IBM customers had already offloaded or replaced applications from their mainframes over to HP business systems and servers over the past year , and quoted Dataquest figures that show 46% of mainframes sites surveyed in the process of downsizing . |
| 11 | In the first edition of a new series of the monthly journal , The Seaman , the union claimed that over 150,000 seamen of all nationalities had , during the previous twelve months , voted unanimously for international action " on the same day and at the same hour , until their unions receive proper recognition , establish the right of collective bargaining and uniform rates of wages and conditions of labour on all ships " . |
| 12 | Last week the Government warned that around 300 women who 'd been injected with a hormone called gonadotrophin , extracted from the pituitary glands of human corpses , could be at risk . |
| 13 | The government said that only two people had been killed as " groups of ill-intentioned people " attacked the security forces . |
| 14 | A Faroese government spokesman said that only 1,550 whales had been killed in the past ten years in a non-commercial hunt which gave islanders an important local source of nutrition . |
| 15 | But the Coastguard spokesman said that about five tonnes of diesel had escaped into the sea . |
| 16 | On Oct. 22 a UN spokesman said that almost 250 people had died of hunger daily in Bardera since the relief workers left . |
| 17 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that almost 1,000 people were estimated to have been killed " and many more injured " . |
| 18 | On March 10 the official news agency reported that approximately 150 sympathizers of an Islamic group had been arrested in the province of Fayoum . |
| 19 | The MEI report added that about 1,000 people had arrived in Turkey ( most of them Iraqi citizens , probably Kurds ) , and about 7,700 in Iran , including 2,000 Sudanese . |
| 20 | The report claimed that almost 400 Lao civilians had crossed into the Thai province of Loei to escape the fighting . |
| 21 | Reports from Kabul Radio indicated that almost 200 people were killed in July during heavy fighting between mujaheddin factions belonging to the Hezb-e-Islami ( Gulbuddin group ) , the Ittehad-e-Islami and the Jamiat-e-Islami . |
| 22 | While complete series are available for Hertfordshire , Worcestershire and Lincolnshire , staffing changes on the project meant that only 50 years of data could be collected for Durham . |
| 23 | The survey revealed that nearly 40 percent of those questioned have increased marketing activity in the past year while 57 percent have maintained their activity levels . |
| 24 | The survey found that only four councils — Poole , New Forest , Bromley and Salford — had made use of these powers . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the first-past-the-post electoral system ensured that only one member of the minor parties was elected ( the leader of the NLP , who retained the seat he already held ) and that the National Party achieved a proportion of MPs considerably greater than that of its share of the vote . |
| 26 | A leading Soviet demographer estimated that altogether 9,400,000 peasants had died during Stalin 's collectivization programme in the early 1930s . |