Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages . |
| 2 | The fortunes of the coffee and tea industries have already been discussed above , and it uncertain whether Kandyans in coffee districts had by 1900 recovered the standard of living which they had attained in the early 1870s . |
| 3 | Almost two-thirds of all primary schools have between 100 and 300 pupils . |
| 4 | This motley bunch of adventurers , undesirables and patriots had by 1921 accepted the general lead of Lord Salisbury . |
| 5 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 6 | All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans . |
| 7 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the conservationists have until 14 March to persuade Norway 's environment minister , Mrs Wenche Frogn-Sellag , to commute the sentence on Vegarshei 's lone wolf . |
| 9 | Relations between the British company and the French Health Ministry have hit an all-time low after claims by the multinational that officials have for 15 months blocked a licence for Glaxo 's new migraine drug . |
| 10 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 11 | Viewed from the perspective of the late-1980's , when archaic ideological attitudes and inflexible organisational structures have at one level unquestionably arrested the originally dynamic social development of the Soviet experiment , and at another level appear to have condemned the PCF to a peripheral status , if not imminent extinction , this seems strange . |
| 12 | The success of policies designed to develop this sector of the economy depends in large part on the knowledge and awareness policy makers and the small businesses have of one another . |
| 13 | In an attempt to establish a national administration in the absence of John Balliol , Scottish nobles and clerics had in 1299 appointed a triumvirate of Guardians : Bishop William Lamberton of St Andrews ; John , the Red Comyn of Badenoch ; and a member of the Comyns ' long-standing rival family , young Robert Bruce of Carrick . |
| 14 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 15 | ARMS has for 15 years battled against Multiple Sclerosis on behalf of sufferers , their carers and families . |
| 16 | ARMS has for 15 years battled against Multiple Sclerosis on behalf of sufferers , their carers and families . |
| 17 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 18 | After the Dissolution of the Monasteries , the Goldsmiths had in 1538 already sued in the Court of Augmentations for the wills and bequests of Sir Edmond and Sir Bartholomew Read . |
| 19 | In 1907 about 2,250,000 German peasants had from 5 to 250 acres apiece , most of them less than 50 . |
| 20 | There was , however , a steady reduction of American troops from 1969 ; the almost half a million men had by 1973 been cut down to just over 20 000 . |
| 21 | On her properties she usually thought only of leasehold for the most superior housing , as at Alderley Edge , where the houses had between one and five acres each . |
| 22 | Japan and Britain : An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850–1930 will be held at the Barbican Art Gallery and surveys the art of Japan and Britain , showing the influences that the cultures had on one another . |
| 23 | The five gates still guarded the only entrances through the mud walls , inside which , among the warren of alleyways and flat-roofed mud houses , Balcha 's soldiers had in 1916 massacred the Muslim population . |
| 24 | Nine cases have over one-half ( 52 per cent ) of the total coverage , while the remaining 105 cases contribute the other one-half . |
| 25 | De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used . |
| 26 | The common law courts have through three centuries consistently resisted all attempts to appeal decisions of the visitor . |
| 27 | In substance , if not in theory , the German Social Democrats had by 1912 become a patriotic party , with only moderate criticisms of German expansionism . |