Example sentences of "[num] [noun] have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 2 | Technology company AWA had sued DRT ( then Deloitte Haskins & Sells ) , claiming that its negligence during two 1986 audits had contributed to foreign exchange losses . |
| 3 | By the 1820s Brighton had sprawled along several miles of cliff top , almost to the edge of its parish boundaries . |
| 4 | The number of manufacturing plants with more than 30 workers had risen by two-thirds . |
| 5 | On Sept. 24 , Yeltsin and the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev achieved a ceasefire agreement between the republics of Azerbaidjan and Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh , where an estimated 800 people had died in inter-ethnic conflict since 1988 . |
| 6 | In the small business area , the company is passing customers on to resellers — it now has a network of 29 independent businesses that exclusively sell its hardware and products , and some 300 employees have transferred to these German partners . |
| 7 | By the end of May 1991 Treuhand had disposed of 18,500 of the 23,000 businesses for which it had assumed responsibility in July 1990 [ for criticism in April 1991 of Treuhand policy see p. 38155 ] . |
| 8 | The report said that 8,500 Indians had left in 1989 . |
| 9 | Indeed , the northern hemisphere mean temperature decrease which began in the 1940s was arrested and reversed during the mid 1970s ( figure 6.15 ) and the seven warmest years in the past 100 years have occurred since 1980 ( 1980 , 1981 , 1983 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | In similar vein , recognizing departmental sensitivity about policy territories , the post 1979 initiatives have focused on efficient administration rather than policy . |
| 11 | On March 10 Boutros-Ghali had appealed to all UN member states for voluntary contributions to cover UNFICYP 's US$196,000,000 cost ; he had pointed out that it was not right that the force should be funded as at present by voluntary contributions from the eight personnel -contributing states [ see also p. 38873 ] . |
| 12 | In June 1934 membership had stood at 21,861 . |
| 13 | Three generations have passed through this room , slept here , argued here , made love here , even died here . |
| 14 | Three generations have passed through this room , slept here , argued here , made love here , even picked up a passenger in Shaftesbury Avenue to take out to Neasden … ’ |
| 15 | Three generations have passed through this room , slept here , argued here , made love here , even died here . |
| 16 | The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures . |
| 17 | The 1902 Act established a system of secondary education as the 1870 Act had done for elementary education , by filling the gaps in the existing provision with non-denominational state schools ( they were not free until 1944 ) . |
| 18 | By the 1870s matters had improved for some : a survey of Nonconformist ministers in the city of Oxford in 1875 showed stipends ranging from £60 p.a. plus house and allowances for a Primitive Methodist minister to about £300 p.a. for the Wesleyan Superintendent of the Oxford Circuit . |
| 19 | Around 150,000 salmon were caught in the river in 1900 , but by 1920 catches had dropped to 30,000 . |
| 20 | The last three years have had below average rainfall . |
| 21 | From the day of the first admission of patients no fewer than 90 persons had applied for medical relief . |
| 22 | Three patients had died from unrelated causes . |
| 23 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 24 | Less than a dozen works have survived from this period and , on the artist 's instructions , they were never exhibited with his other work during his lifetime . |
| 25 | Reporters who visited the Dollo camp , about 425 miles south-west of Addis Ababa , said three babies had died within two hours . |
| 26 | Since 1974 , over a dozen deaths have resulted from such shootings . |
| 27 | A group of 11 companies has committed to developing products conforming to the joint AT&T Co-Hewlett-Packard Co proposal for 100Mbps Ethernet , despite the fact that the IEEE has yet to decide whether to adopt it as a standard . |
| 28 | On 20 May 5 Corps had reported to Eighth Army on the meeting which had taken place the previous evening between Brig Low and Col Ivanovitch . |
| 29 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 30 | Research over the last sixty years has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that , for many people , unemployment is responsible for deterioration in mental and physical health . |