Example sentences of "[verb] that [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 2 | I suggest that one solution for biologists will be to apply their expertise to the new science of socioecology , and the environment of the office . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman has clearly studied this issue and will know that three quarters of all patients in Scotland are dealt with within four weeks and that half are dealt with immediately . |
| 4 | It is expected that three quarters of the titanium tetrachloride can be recovered , reducing raw materials costs by £600,000 a year . |
| 5 | On Sept. 4 a government source was quoted as announcing that two members of the presidential guard had been charged with Boudiaf 's assassination . |
| 6 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 7 | The Health Ministry subsequently claimed that 160 shipments of medicines and medical equipment , paid for before Aug. 2 , 1990 ( the date of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait ) , were detained at foreign ports . |
| 8 | Mm I must admit I 'm , I 'm interes be interesting to see the outcome , you know when audit commission and O F S T E D say that thirty percent of people who enter further and higher education fail . |
| 9 | Well , Department of Transport erm say that five cuts per year is enough and , and er we , we do seven cuts which is a little bit better than that . |
| 10 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 11 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 12 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 13 | Four hours later we came out to find that three inches of rain had fallen , creeks had burst their banks , cars had been swept away , and people were injured and homeless . |
| 14 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 15 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
| 16 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 17 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 18 | On Jan. 24 it was reported that 28 members of the Interim Legislative Assembly had taken their seats . |
| 19 | On Jan. 3 Swedish radio also reported that three diplomats at the Chinese embassy in Stockholm had been expelled at the end of 1990 for spying on Chinese students living in Sweden , while China expelled a Swedish diplomat in retaliation . |
| 20 | Researchers who spoke to hospital general managers and health authority planning departments found that 41 hospitals in England were to go by 1997 , rising to 45 by the turn of the century . |
| 21 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that five years after divorce in four-fifths of the 71 families in the study the children had one parent with a new partner and at least one-third had two parents with new partners . |
| 22 | The factory survey found that one quarter of Japan 's biggest factories used robots and that a second quarter had plans to install them by the end of 1982 . |
| 23 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 24 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 25 | The judge found that six members of the management committee , including the appellant and the defendant , resolved to dismiss the plaintiff . |
| 26 | That 's one of the results of a survey carried out by Dr John Stradling , which found that 36,000 people in Britain suffer from sleep apnoea — it prevents air flowing freely to the lungs and results in loud snoring . |
| 27 | Pieda 's report found that 56,000 jobs outside the Scotch whisky industry depend on the jobs of 15,000 employed directly by the big Scotch concerns . |
| 28 | Researchers for the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review found that three quarters of local authority tenants , half the private tenants and two-fifths of mortgage borrowers failed to go to court . |
| 29 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 30 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |