Example sentences of "[adj] it had [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 2 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 3 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |
| 4 | In 1900 it had nine ! |
| 5 | By the 1880s it had three main departments of this kind : Eastern , Western and American ( the last also covering China , Japan and Siam ) . |
| 6 | After the First World War the Midland continued to expand by opening branches , and by 1939 it had 2,100 . |
| 7 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |