Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington over eight rinks just had the better of a Nottinghamshire county side . |
| 2 | Three of eight subjects also had HAPCs during fasting . |
| 3 | Gray from 43 Squadron already had two victories to his credit , while Plt.Off . |
| 4 | This place , which 30 years ago had the fastest-growing economy in democratic Europe , is now an economic failure . |
| 5 | Reduction in chlorambucil dose to 2 mg daily had no effect on visual symptoms . |
| 6 | Her sister 's disappearance six years ago had not gone through her mind during the ordeal . |
| 7 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 8 | The Lassavette — Glass Negative Prints of 100 Years Ago had been taken along by Peter Macdonald of Godalming Photographic Club . |
| 9 | Not so Mark James , who 10 years ago had The Open in his sights , only to tail off . |
| 10 | As of 1982 more than 300,000 households still had water with more than 100ug/l lead in their tapwater . |
| 11 | Not since Paul Alexandre had supported Modigliani eight years previously had anyone shown such excitement and deep interest in his work . |
| 12 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 13 | Looking at recurrences a little closer , of the eighteen patients , fifty percent only had a solitary recurrence in that first year , and no patient had more than four recurrences . |
| 14 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 15 | In a collision between the furtive sex of the old order and the impression of freer sex of the young , the Tories like the doomed professor in The Blue Angel three decades earlier had come off worse . |
| 16 | Three B never had suggestions . |
| 17 | Suppose one or more of those who visited Burford three weeks later had witnessed the murder or knew what Everett had discovered . |
| 18 | By the time she drained her glass she also knew that the last van to leave for the country about three weeks ago had been Chertsey bound . |
| 19 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |
| 20 | Among the 21 people named were Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Kenya 's first Vice-President ( his son Raila Odinga was among six dissident intellectuals who were detained on July 5 ) ; another former Vice-President Josephat Karanja , who had been forced to resign in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] ; the writer Ngugi wa Thiongo ; an Anglican bishop , the Rev. Henry Okullu , who three days previously had called upon the government to resign ; and a lawyer , Gibson Kamau Kuria , who had earlier compared Moi with the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 21 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 22 | Civilian and police press officers attached to RUC Headquarters , Belfast retailed various smear stories against Irwin , including a claim that he was bitter and vindictive against the police because they had failed to arrest a soldier who , it was alleged , three years earlier had raped his wife . |
| 23 | One in three households still had no car . |
| 24 | Twenty three patients also had an acid clearance test before and after healing . |
| 25 | Twenty three patients also had symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux and nine had an irritable bowel . |
| 26 | Although much remained the same as before — the new electorate constituted but one-thirtieth of the population , 31 boroughs still had fewer than 300 electors in each , voting remained by open ballot ( secret ballots were considered rather un-English ) , and the aristocracy still held great sway politically — the act precipitated important changes both within and outside the House of Commons . |
| 27 | Three adults also had check-ups . |
| 28 | In 1806 Thurlstone also had 17 labourers , 3 millers , a millwright , 4 paper makers and an oil-presser . |
| 29 | She felt remarkably at ease with this man who only three nights before had been a total stranger . |
| 30 | Fourteen percussionists here had a stage of their own , stretching around half of the choir seats , and the average decibel count from the brass was well up in proportion . |