Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The software determines how many crossroads there are , where they are located and how many options are offered by each of them . |
| 2 | But first there was time when reading a soccer report in a Sunday newspaper meant catching up on how many people were stabbed and how many pitches were invaded . |
| 3 | It is also why so many different religions are taught , so many different kinds of churches are built and so many different kinds of hymn and prayer books used . |
| 4 | ‘ There — ’ Hope pointed towards Crosthwaite Church modestly huddled below ‘ — where saints have visited and so many have worshipped quietly for over a thousand years . ’ |
| 5 | The Home Office has commissioned research from Professor Graham Davies of Leicester University who says it focuses on four key areas : observing how tapes are used in court and how children stand up under cross-examination ; tracking how many tapes are made and how many end up in court ; discovering the views of lawyers , judges , social workers , police who use the tapes ; and judging the memorandum 's influence over how recordings are made and questions asked . |
| 6 | In relation to ( e ) , the Consortium needs to know how many IDO claims have already been validated and how many are outstanding that could be affected by the outcome of the Carmel case . |
| 7 | For example , for the reign of Edward I we know , from documentary sources , how much coinage was minted and how many dies were made ( fig. 23 ) . |
| 8 | Right so when we add those up then we 've just got A squared and how many minus A Bs have we got ? |
| 9 | I 'll tell Alison the accountant then , and she 'll tell me what she 's sold and how many contracts we 've booked and but it 's done in front of everybody else while everybody , why everybody else who 's on the phone . |
| 10 | I thought I could best do this at the Foreign Office , since in the aftermath of Suez so many dangerous tangles remained to be unravelled and so many ruptured friendships to be mended . |
| 11 | The question remains , however , as to when a potency level is actually reached and how many succussions are needed to reach it and also whether different dilution factors need different amounts . |
| 12 | how much each customer spent and how many items they bought |
| 13 | how much each customer spent and how many items they bought |
| 14 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
| 15 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 16 | My Lords , could I ask the Minister if she would agree that there have been some improvements in the accident and emergency departments , since consultants were appointed and how many accidents that er there are emergency departments have not got consultants in charge and leave it to junior doctors ? |
| 17 | How , for example , is an organizational type to be defined and how many are to be selected ? |
| 18 | But predominating over the entire emotional range was a pervasive charge of mercantile curiosity as to how much the whole thing had cost and how many bottles of the stuff they would have to sell just to recoup the cost of the launch . |
| 19 | The business depends on telephone contact , so its telephone systems are equally sophisticated — a display shows instant by instant how many calls have been handled and how many are waiting . |
| 20 | Four Palestinians were killed and as many as 80 wounded in clashes with Israeli paramilitary border police on April 1 in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip . |
| 21 | How long must we go on , how many more jobs are to be lost and how many more families are to be dispossessed of their homes ? |
| 22 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 23 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 24 | Judgement must be suspended and as many ideas as possible , no matter how fanciful , collected and recorded , from any source . |
| 25 | Judgement must be suspended and as many ideas as possible , no matter how fanciful , collected and recorded , from any source . |
| 26 | The partnership agreement may deal with where the band 's joint bank account is held and how many signatures are required on the account to deal with the band 's finances . |
| 27 | I think it 's important that this type of meeting should be held and indeed many others like it in ever-widening circles . |
| 28 | First , there was the simple fact of depopulation which diminished the general size of the market and the level of demand for indigenous manufactures , and no doubt thereby arrested the economic development of the whole region ; second , the depopulation affected agriculture , reducing some previous food exporting regions to starvation levels by the nineteenth century ; third , African production of cloth , metalware and other handicrafts was severely affected , not only by the loss of so many of its producers , but also by the fact that in return the slave traders penetrated the markets of the coast and hinterland with European cotton and manufactured goods ; and fourth , as the demand for slaves multiplied and as many African kings and merchants became even more dependent on European trade , war raids for the capture of potential slaves from neighbouring societies became even more frequent , injecting political instability , consuming precious economic resources , and creating a vicious spiral in which rival kingdoms became ever more dependent on the slave trade to acquire the fire arms necessary for capturing more slaves and in turn defending their slaves against slave-hunting raids from neighbouring kingdoms ( Rodney , 1972 , pp. 104–23 ; Davidson , 1974 , pp. 206 — 10 ; Inikoria , 1982 ) . |