Example sentences of "[adv] had [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Nafis Sadik , head of UNFPA , pointed out : " Even if every woman only had 2.1 children [ the replacement level ] the population is already so large [ at just over 5.5 billion ] that we will be headed for 8.5 billion people no matter what " . |
| 2 | Because when you were trained in those days you only had two children or otherwise you had another nanny if you had more . |
| 3 | A long-time friend of the family , Mr Ray Whittaker , 62 , a council worker who lives nearby , said : ‘ Peter and Joan only had three children and have nearly lost them all . ’ |
| 4 | Sue married Hugh Williams in 1987 — each partner already had two children , Polly and Amy , Harriet and Tom , from previous marriages . |
| 5 | I already had two children , and the last thing I wanted was a third . |
| 6 | She already had two children , Matthew , six , and Rebecca , three , and she feared she would n't be able to cope with two new babies . |
| 7 | She already had two children , Matthew , six , and Rebecca , three , and she feared she would n't be able to cope with two new babies . |
| 8 | The Schlesingers already had five children including one , John , who was destined to become a leading film director . |
| 9 | At your age I already had five children living and not the hope of a decent wage coming . |
| 10 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 11 | She understood — mainly because she was only twenty-six and already had four children and another on the way . |
| 12 | When they started their " mission " amongst the poor and destitute of the great cities of Britain they already had six children . |
| 13 | Having married a princess of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1841 ( by whom he rapidly had six children ) , he was gradually introduced to his future duties . |
| 14 | So you know erm my brother was er as I said I was er four when my brother died then my mam gradually had more children afterwards until there was nine of us in the end left there . |
| 15 | They always had one child with them , outside the room . |
| 16 | A senior teacher , he was , of course , employed by the council , and he also had six children of his own . |
| 17 | Just as some children in public care had experienced the break-up of their parents ' marriage , or other family changes , so also had many children not admitted into care . |
| 18 | ‘ We never had any children , it was n't possible , ’ he said a couple of weeks later . |
| 19 | She and her husband never had any children . |
| 20 | ‘ Actually , as he and my aunt never had any children , I expect to be his heir . ’ |
| 21 | Before the rise of the West European marriage pattern the aristocracy married earlier and therefore had more children than others . |