Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 30 , the US authorities revealed that two members of a Cuban family were wounded by Cuban security forces while attempting to flee to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay . |
| 2 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 3 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 4 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 5 | FAITHFUL readers know that four years ago we wagered a magnum of bubbly against the proposed restaurant in the former TSB premises in Stanhope having a Michelin star by 1990 . |
| 6 | According to the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 28 , pro-Israel lobbyists said that 62 senators had undertaken to endorse the guarantees in the event of a vote . |
| 7 | Eyewitness accounts from Western journalists said that 200 troops fired on the unarmed crowd for several minutes before moving in to beat and arrest the survivors . |
| 8 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors estimated that 600,000 acres had been blighted , including large areas of Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 9 | VAT returns show that 9,581 individuals reclaimed the tax in 1991 having completed a genuine , hands-on self-build project . |
| 10 | Parents hope that two others , Clare Donaghy and Sarah Quinn will also be sent there soon . |
| 11 | Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture . |
| 12 | The intelligence source which had originally tipped off West German police about the group 's activities claimed that five bombs had been made . |
| 13 | However , it sprang to prominence last year when an inventory of its contents revealed that 325 artworks had gone missing . |
| 14 | In the same period , figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that 221,900 mortgages ( 2.3 per cent of the outstanding stock ) were more than six months in arrears , compared with 109,370 ( 1.2 per cent of the outstanding stock ) a year earlier , and that 36,610 dwellings were repossessed ( 0.4 per cent of the outstanding stock of mortgages ) , more than double the number recorded a year earlier . |
| 15 | Our figures for oral carcinoma in south east Scotland over the past 10 years show that 456 patients presented with these tumours ; the mean age at presentation was 63.8 years for men and 68.2 years for women . |
| 16 | By June 22 UN military observers stated that 16,642 contras had been disbanded , the figure rising to an estimated 19,197 by June 26 . |
| 17 | For owner-occupiers , on the other hand , the need to save for a deposit and other expenses , together with the relatively large mortgage payments in the early years means that two incomes are necessary for an extended period and therefore childbearing will be delayed . |
| 18 | UN officials said that 100,000 women and children demonstrated for peace in the north of Mogadishu on March 8 . |
| 19 | The campaign and touring roadshow aims to promote playtime safety after figures revealed that 1,500 children under four from North Clwyd ended up in Glan Clwyd Hospital last year with head and face injuries . |
| 20 | A survey among the group 's 16 founder properties found that 4,000 conferences were booked in 1990 , attracting 90,000 delegates . |
| 21 | Official figures put the casualties at seven dead and 22 wounded , but independent sources estimated that 16 demonstrators and two policemen had been killed and 350 demonstrators injured , 66 of whom were in critical condition . |
| 22 | Arnold ( 1957 ) presents a well-reasoned approach ; most writers conclude that three levels ( primary , secondary and unstressed ) are required , as outlined in this chapter . |
| 23 | Figures show that 17 members of Durham County Council claimed £2,087 in expenses up to January 10 . |
| 24 | Figures show that 17 members of Durham County Council claimed £2,087 in expenses up to January 10 . |
| 25 | Figures show that 17 members of Durham County Council claimed £2,087 in expenses up to January 10 . |
| 26 | The latest figures show that seventy-six companies per day are failing in Britain , the highest rate since the recession began more than two years ago . |
| 27 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 28 | Other sources claimed that 10 members of the ruling Ba'ath party had also been killed by the demonstrators . |
| 29 | Ukrainian sources claimed that ninety-two wagons of grain were collected from starving Ukrainian gubernii , of which thirty-six were sent off to feed the hungry in the Volga-Ural area . |
| 30 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |