Example sentences of "[pron] had [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 2 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 3 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 4 | erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ? |
| 5 | The provision of this form of care has its origins in the pre-war public hospitals , which had a large number of patients with chronic health care problems . |
| 6 | Perhaps surprisingly , it was division two which had the largest number of entrants . |
| 7 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
| 8 | Rupert Bear was a character who had a remarkable number of adventures . |
| 9 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 10 | In the year we had a large number of retirements ; Danny Davies , Gwyn Bowen , Dudley Powell and Harry Nelson from Ffos Las ; George Collis , Ritchie Williams and Vernon Williams from Gilfach Iago and John Kilkenny from Potatopot . |
| 11 | We had to look at what we can afford to do in the future , and make sure that we had the right number of quality staff in the right places to carry out our programme . |
| 12 | They had a similar number in the Cup against Harris , but this time Mike Yellowlees scored in the 20th minute to cancel out a fourth-minute goal from Stuart Taylor . |
| 13 | They had a greater number of internal attributions for negative disaster related events . |
| 14 | They were also mainly peasant economies , but they had a significant number of industrial enterprises ( many of which were the ancestors of today 's ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ) . |
| 15 | I visited a school in the North West recently and the school told me that they had a considerable number of girls applying to university to read engineering about two years ago . |
| 16 | Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined . |
| 17 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 18 | He went on : ’ when comparing Kent with 13 southern counties it had the lowest number of school leavers with five GCSEs grade A to C the second highest number of pupils leaving with no qualifications , the 12th lowest number staying on at 16 . ’ |
| 19 | In spite of the party 's determination to promote women , it had the lowest number of women candidates : 24 per cent of SNP candidates were women ; 27 per cent of Tory candidates were women ; while the Lib Dems again scored highest with 33 per cent . |
| 20 | I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday . |
| 21 | That 's right , er and it had the same number |
| 22 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 23 | He had a certain number of men-at-arms in the town , who could , probably , contain a revolt of the townsfolk , at least for a little while . |
| 24 | Well , he had the right number then did n't he ? |
| 25 | I asked him if he had the right number ? |
| 26 | Cos I thought that he had the wrong number ! |