Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The honourable draw had to wait till Old Trafford , although over eleven hours were lost to the weather . |
| 2 | The parasite was originally described in 1907 but the first human case was not recognised until 1976 and only eight cases were described in the literature before 1982 . |
| 3 | Women 's sanitary protection last came under scrutiny with the Toxic Shock Syndrome , a disease where 2,200 cases were reported in the United States up to June 1983 proving fatal in 5% of instances between 1976 and 1982 . |
| 4 | Fifty cases were adopted by the unit in 1986/7 from bureaux who needed additional assistance . |
| 5 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 6 | Over 75 organizations were represented at the meeting in Durban , including the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the Labour Party , which held the majority of seats in the House of Representatives ( the chamber for Coloured people in the tricameral parliament — see p. 36880 for 1989 election ) . |
| 7 | School pupils escaped injury but 70 homes were damaged in the blast . |
| 8 | Thereafter , although the Florentines continued to import English wool , they did not carry it in their own ships , and in the 1480s proposals were made for a wool staple at Pisa , with English ships having the monopoly of the carrying . |
| 9 | K-ras codon 12 mutations were found in a total of eight out of 30 sporadic adenomas examined . |
| 10 | Many other people who were flooded stayed with relatives and friends ; More than 800 calls were received by the emergency services following the floods , with the Territorial Army Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 called in to help cope ; It was estimated that the cost of repairing damaged roads alone will run to £1m . |
| 11 | Those 43 vessels were accepted by the United Kingdom and Community authorities as ‘ joint venture ’ boats by virtue of article 168(4) of and Annex XII to the Act of Accession 1985 . |
| 12 | However , plaice to over 2 lbs were taken during the event . |
| 13 | Those 53 vessels were registered under the Act of 1894 at various dates from 1980 onwards . |
| 14 | All 154 candidates were approved by the Lao Front for National Construction , the " mass organization " dominated by the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party . |
| 15 | Even more interesting was the fact that over 300 cars were parked at the Park and Ride facility at Harman 's Cross which obviously reduced the level of traffic along the road to Swanage by that amount . |
| 16 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 17 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 18 | TEHRAN ( AFP ) — At least 300 homes were destroyed in an earthquake which shook the south-western Iranian town of Sisakht on Mount Dena early yesterday , the news agency IRNA reported . |
| 19 | Almost 800 companies were assisted by the programme . |
| 20 | It claimed matches and more than 30 lighters were found in the house in places accessible to the children . |
| 21 | Eventually all the machines manufactured over the past 30 years were divided by the CCITT into three groups , imaginatively designated as Groups One , Two and Three . |
| 22 | Survival rates at 30 days were compared for an intention-to-treat and an efficacy population . |
| 23 | As well as the writs issued against the two men , 12 writs were obtained by the army 's solicitors , Slaughter & May — mostly to gain access to confidential documents or accounts where funds are thought to be held . |
| 24 | For example , in the five years from 1981 to 1986 , 1 76 Albanian teachers , 11 Albanian professors , and 511 Albanian students were expelled from schools or universities in Kosovo , and 1,600 Albanians were expelled from the Party ( Danas , 11 February 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Nearly 30 displays were complemented by the colour co-ordinated floral arrangements ranging from delicate table centres to dramatic displays of imported flowers and foliage . |
| 26 | Now one crew member , who fears dismissal if named , has revealed that about 30 passengers were admitted onto the flight at the last minute . |
| 27 | Two thousand , two hundred and fifty-four ( 2254 ) citations were retrieved , from which a sample set of 305 citations were checked against the two databases . |
| 28 | Two thousand , two hundred and fifty-four ( 2254 ) citations were retrieved , from which a sample set of 305 citations were checked against the two databases . |
| 29 | Down the road at the Gloucester leisure centre it was a weekend for table tennis fans … over 300 players were competing in the Cotswold Junior championships … the boys title went to Surrey … the girls to Yorkshire but local boy Ray Powell raised the roof by fighting his way through to the semi-finals |
| 30 | For instance , during 1979 , with three consultants only 30 placements were achieved in the UK , compared with Egon Zehnder 's 80 and Spencer Stuart 's 170 in the same year . |