Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sporadic fighting was reported during the rest of October , and on Oct. 26 Interfax cited the Karabakh news agency as having reported that Azerbaijani MiG-25 aircraft had bombed Stepanakert , the Nagorny Karabakh capital . |
| 2 | The State of Emergency Governor for the south-eastern region , Unal Erkan , told other regional governors meeting in Batman on June 17 that in the last 40 days 60 soldiers and some 180 civilians had been killed in clashes . |
| 3 | According to figures released by the Finance Ministry on May 21 , some 8,500,000 citizens had bought their entitlement of vouchers , of which some 72 per cent had subsequently been placed with investment funds [ see pp. 38776-77 ] . |
| 4 | By June 1990 , as the result of a campaign launched in May 1989 , a total of some 550 agreements had been reached in the engineerng industry for a phased reduction of the basic working week , generally from 39 to 37 hours . |
| 5 | Amnesty International claimed on Nov. 1 that some 800 Yemenis had been detained , tortured and ill-treated by Saudi troops since August " for no apparent reason other than their nationality , or their suspected opposition to the Saudi Arabian government 's position on the Gulf crisis " . |
| 6 | Some 800 people had died since August in this violence , involving clashes particularly in workers ' hostels between mainly Xhosa-speaking pro-ANC workers and the almost exclusively Zulu-based Inkatha movement ( now the Inkatha Freedom Party ) led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 7 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 8 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 9 | Thirty practices with a combined list of 175 417 patients had open access to the radiology services provided by the district . |
| 10 | Fighting was more protracted in Croatia , where some 300 people had been killed by mid-August . |
| 11 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 12 | The aim is to have all hosts implement CCL , and by 1981 some 12 hosts had done so . |
| 13 | With great foresight , the scientists operating this marine 0898 line had also brought a tape of a large male whale — saying what , we know not — presumably in case these were , well , the sort of lads who do n't like girls . |
| 14 | Sinn Fein said a further 49 photographs had been sent to its office in Monaghan in the Irish Republic . |
| 15 | ‘ We see the volume just getting down to that core set who will see increased demand , ’ he said , adding that the industry 's top 10 companies had 58% of 1992 sales . |
| 16 | Yesterday , while watching the thrilling final of the Midland Bank Championships at Brighton , I was very interested to hear Barry Davis ' comment on the fact that not one of the world 's top 10 players had participated in the event with the notable exception of one Steffi Graf . |
| 17 | By June 23 a further 44 people had been killed . |
| 18 | A further 30,000 people had been forced to flee to the relative safety of the capital . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 20 | However , some six months had elapsed between the presentation of the report and his departure : time enough to have acted . |
| 21 | By 1992 the top six firms had increased their share to 73% of our population 's audits , compared with 53% five years previously , while the top 20 firms audited 90% of listed companies as opposed to 83% in 1987 . |
| 22 | It was reported in late December that some 142,000 Jews had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel during 1991 , compared with the 400,000 expected by the government at the start of the year and the 185,000 who had emigrated in 1990 . |
| 23 | Up to 1,500,000 people were estimated to have voted , although congestion at the polling stations meant that some 30,000 voters had been unable to vote when the polling stations closed at midnight . |
| 24 | Forty six patients had a single event , 59 had two-five , 21 had six-10 , and 31 had more than 10 events before referral . |
| 25 | Disaster relief officials said that over the last three days another 12,000 people had been evacuated to join 45,000 already crammed into the centres after an eruption killed 75 people on 2 February . |
| 26 | Some players had taken jobs in arms factories , others had enlisted ( as early as October 1914 some 70,000 players had already joined the Forces ) . |
| 27 | This was achieved using venture capital and so successful was the product that by 1978/79 some 135,000 machines had been sold . |
| 28 | His own success , with its accumulation of titles , meant that by 1987 the circulation share of the top three groups had slipped back — but the number of titles within them was greater than ever . |
| 29 | Forty three patients had partially treated iron deficiency with a typical blood film and microcytosis ( mean cell volume <76 fl ) or iron , iron binding capacity or ferritin , or all four at the extremes of the normal range and a response to iron treatment . |
| 30 | A further two camps were later set up further south , in the Tamanrasset region , and on March 22 , detainees ' families heard that some 600 prisoners had been transferred there . |