Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents had two children : an older brother , and myself . |
| 2 | Her parents had eleven children legitimately and probably others besides . |
| 3 | The General Household Survey shows that , in 1982 , 44 per cent of women in paid employment worked part-time , and 70 per cent of part-time women workers had dependent children . |
| 4 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
| 5 | Many of the customers had young children and were worried about the plans for evacuation . |
| 6 | Almost all the 38 families were what would today be regarded as large , but was fairly normal for working-class families in Edwardian Britain.7 Of the 38 , 11 families had 4 children or less , 21 had between 5 and 7 , and 6 had 8 or over . |
| 7 | In terms of both household size and number of children per family ethnicity seemed more important than class , with 3.6 and 3.7 people in Welsh working class and middle class households respectively , and 6.7 and 7.1 in Bangladeshi working class and middle class households respectively ; Welsh middle and working class families had 1.5 children on average , while Bangladeshi working class averaged 3.4 and middle class 2.1 . |
| 8 | Some had large dependent families , while others had teenage children able to make a substantial contribution . |
| 9 | By the time they had reached age 36 , with their fertility almost complete , 52 per cent of the mothers in the 1946 cohort of births had two children , 16 per cent just one , and 32 per cent three or more ( Kiernan 1989c ) . |