Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1939 ( the only year for which figures are available ) the borough had ten branches with a total membership of 788 ( WCG Annual Report 1939 ) . |
| 2 | By the end of the year , the Association had two Lodges with residents in occupation , and a third in the final stages of conversion . |
| 3 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 4 | Such reasoning had two flaws . |
| 5 | The division of the county into electoral districts of equal size within which each ratepayer had one vote — voting to be by ballot ; |
| 6 | In post-race scrutineering it was revealed that the car had 25 litres of fuel left in the tank . |
| 7 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 8 | Their appointment was not hereditary , and people could dispute it : in 1975–9 one Zuwaya lineage had two shaikhs . |
| 9 | We know that its facade had eight columns , and we find coins showing any number from two to eight , but never more . |
| 10 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 11 | The Laxey wheel had 168 buckets , each holding 24 gallons . |
| 12 | The mayor had twelve aldermen and twenty-four assistants , plus a recorder , a clerk and two sergeants-at-mace , to help him ‘ to make reasonable laws , statutes , constitutions , decrees and ordinances ’ . |
| 13 | This monster had eight heads and eight tails and was so long it stretched over eight hills and eight valleys . |
| 14 | A stage intermediate between these two ideas was reflected in the Companies Clauses Act 1845 which provided that in the absence of contrary provision in the special statute every shareholder had one vote for every share up to ten , one for every additional five up to a hundred and one for every ten thereafter , thus weighting the voting in favour of the smaller holders . |
| 15 | Prior to the election Labour had twenty-eight seats and the Alliance twenty , now it stood at thirty-six and twenty-four respectively , and after the by-elections subsequent to the election of aldermen , forty and twenty-four . |
| 16 | He said Labour had two manifestos one they published and another secret one to be produced if the party won . |
| 17 | Nevertheless in 1987 Dublin North-East had one TD for every 12,712 electors and Dublin South-Central one for every 17,071 . |
| 18 | As well as coming to terms with her public role , the fledgling princess had two houses to furnish and decorate . |
| 19 | The National Federation executive committee had two decisions to make in determining nineteen ninety two subscription . |
| 20 | The first committee had three members from Glenties , two from Ardara , three from Lettermacaward and one from Raphoe . |
| 21 | This work had two novelties . |
| 22 | No but , what the bloke had one half and you had to have the other half . |
| 23 | The Thomas household had five sons by the time Edward was ten years old . |
| 24 | Right a trireme a Greek warship had three layers did n't it ? |
| 25 | The plan had one drawback : the advancing Germans would violate Belgian and Dutch neutrality , guaranteed by Great Britain , Austria , France , Germany and Russia , thus bringing Great Britain into the war on the Allied side . |
| 26 | The plan had three parts . |
| 27 | Each child had one pair of all-purpose shoes but often there was little more than the uppers remaining . |
| 28 | The plucky youngster had four operations and radio and chemotherapy during her four-year battle against the illness . |
| 29 | The LAPD had 7,000 officers , albeit better trained , with an air fleet of eighteen helicopters , a budget of over $400 million and an arsenal the teenagers in the gangs could never match . |
| 30 | At the beginning of the 1970s the Council had four committees and sixty-four boards and panels , and a staff of thirty-six , with an inevitably increasing workload . |