Example sentences of "[num] were [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One person died and 26 were injured in the 1985 bombings . |
| 2 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 3 | During the 1983 — 7 Parliament two seats were won at by-elections but three were lost in the 1987 general election . |
| 4 | The aim , therefore , was both to create new centres of national capitalism and to neutralize the capacity to obstruct this process of the three dominant powers of backward Europe — the Tsars , the Habsburg emperors , and the monarchs of Prussia ( the three were interlocked in the tripartite division of Poland ) . |
| 5 | Co-ordination of transport , nationalization of coal , gas and electricity , in short the basic measures carried out between 1945 and 1950 were treated in the new programme as the " four vital measures of reconstruction " . |
| 6 | At any one time five were working in the Criminal Division and in the Queen 's Bench Divisional Court . |
| 7 | Of the fifty teams taking part in the parade , only eight were playing in the four finals , but there was still the prize for the best-turned-out team to be won . |
| 8 | Only 9,000 were produced in the short history of the Dunmurry factory and there are only 15 on the roads of Northern Ireland — worth £13,000–£20,000 each . |
| 9 | Three hundred were sold in the first two days . |
| 10 | Two Swiss Red Cross workers taken hostage in Lebanon in October 1989 were released in the first half of August . |
| 11 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 12 | Today we could expect to find perhaps a dozen employed ; but then , only 14 were retired in the broadest sense . |
| 13 | The net result is that while only nine cases were missed ( false negative ) , 492 were included in the original high risk group but did not subsequently abuse ( false positive ) . |
| 14 | Two brothers aged 20 and 24 were hanged in the main square of the industrial town of Fier , southern Albania , on June 25 . |