Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [num] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day . |
| 2 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 3 | In Somalia the combination of war and famine claimed a quarter of a million children dead last year . |
| 4 | Three quarters of a million children have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries , others are disabled for life . |
| 5 | Can we wait for prosperity and education to keep mankind in check ; so the humble villager , the wretched dweller in the shantytown does n't choose the traditional , unthinking , long-term option of a dozen children , the decision which in the long term destroys both them and theirs ? |