Example sentences of "[noun sg] said that [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The government said that only two people had been killed as " groups of ill-intentioned people " attacked the security forces . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | But the Coastguard spokesman said that about five tonnes of diesel had escaped into the sea . |
6 | On Oct. 22 a UN spokesman said that almost 250 people had died of hunger daily in Bardera since the relief workers left . |
7 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that almost 1,000 people were estimated to have been killed " and many more injured " . |