Example sentences of "[num] [noun] did the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 2 | Only on 3 occasions did the named individual actually appear in the dream as themselves . |
| 3 | In contrast , when a satellite was removed from nine other groups , in only one case did the others disperse . |
| 4 | Another analysis of a sample of sixteen English parishes has shown that in only one case did the number of males married between 1721 and 1750 who could also be found in both the baptism and burial records exceed 50 per cent ( in that case it was 51 per cent ) . |
| 5 | On only one point did the judge concede that the ministry had acted outrageously — in suppressing the description of how Imperial troops crushed a volunteer army more than 100 years ago . |
| 6 | Not for one moment did the two men believe that they would see anything , and they were determined not to allow the foggy weather to play havoc with their imaginations . |
| 7 | In only three of the 16 patients did the gastric and oesophageal findings disagree . |
| 8 | In only one area did the coalition succeed totally , but this argument was a double-edged sword : Lloyd George had weathered the storm of labour unrest , and after " Black Friday " this was clearly abating . |
| 9 | Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice , giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment . |
| 10 | In only 14 cases did the user ‘ volunteer ’ in the first instance to go to the Drugs Council . |
| 11 | Rude , but true , because not for another two decades did the Scottish capital get around to paying for proper effluent disposal into the River Forth . |
| 12 | These two men did the same sort of job . |