Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in 1979 a French survey of the world literature reported that only 430 cases of ocular , and 350 cases of visceral , larva migrans had been recorded . |
| 2 | One study found that nearly two thirds of patients had had their incontinence for over two years before they first sought professional advice . |
| 3 | The study found that almost 20 per cent developed significant problems including anxiety , depression , fear of driving or being a passenger and many continued to have vivid memories of the accident months after the event . |
| 4 | Furthermore , by 1980 one study found that almost 60 per cent of bank lending to the industrial and commercial sectors constituted ‘ medium-term finance ’ . |
| 5 | In 1982 , a study found that only 2 per cent of sales in the previous six years had been flats ( General Household Survey 1982 , 1984 , Table 5.44 ) . |
| 6 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 7 | Research showed that nearly one in ten pints drunk at home last month was imported for personal use , resulting in a loss of revenue of almost £100 million , the society told the Paymaster-General , Sir John Cope . |
| 8 | Market research showed that only 15 per cent of US adults had made a ‘ foreign ’ trip in the three years prior to 1989 — and that included trips to Hawaii and Alaska . |
| 9 | Church-going was being abandoned in favour of the new religion of DIY and other time-consuming pursuits , and research showed that only 3 per cent of the population still indulged in the great British institution of the Sunday lie-in , paper included . |
| 10 | On Feb. 14 Col. Abdullah al Kandari of the Kuwaiti air force said that over 200 people had been executed since the start of the allied bombing . |
| 11 | Yes , the Royal College suggested that maybe twenty per cent of all examinations that are carried out er maybe do n't have benefits for the patient , and in that sense are unjustified . |
| 12 | After talks in Moscow on Nov. 27 between President Gorbachev and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz , described by Gorbachev as " difficult , I would even say harsh " , the Soviet Foreign Affairs Ministry estimated that only 350 Soviet nationals had thus far been allowed to leave Iraq . ) |
| 13 | Housing authorities have a general duty to house ‘ vulnerable ’ people but a recent survey by the National Children 's Home found that only 50 per cent of authorities would classify as vulnerable a young homeless person with no parents and no support . |
| 14 | On applications , a survey by the Policy Studies Institute showed that only 49 per cent of industry is seriously considering microelectronic technology or using it already . |
| 15 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |
| 16 | The 1981 census showed that nearly 97 per cent of people of pensionable age were thus accommodated ; while the recent dramatic growth of private residential care may increase the proportion in institutional care , the fact remains that they will remain a minute fraction of the elderly population . |
| 17 | A survey over one year at Link showed that only 11.8 per cent of deafened people attending courses did not have tinnitus . |
| 18 | When the relocation was announced in 1983 , Blue Circle expected that around 30 per cent of the work-force would not move with the company . |
| 19 | The opposition MPs who opposed the Government move claimed that only one small bookmaker in Edinburgh had been in favour of late opening . |
| 20 | Later investigation showed that over 1,600 cables had been damaged , a third of them concerned with safety . |
| 21 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 22 | The inquiry heard that only one suicide and no accidental drownings had happened at Bellrock Quarry before last year 's double tragedy . |
| 23 | The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs . |
| 24 | The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 . |
| 25 | On Jan. 30 , 1990 , a Supreme Soviet Commission revealed that nearly 845,000 victims of Stalinism had been posthumously rehabilitated during 1988-89 , but called for review procedures to be streamlined . |
| 26 | This argument presumed that only one person in the family was capable of cleaning ; furthermore , that the smaller a house is , the easier it is to keep clean . |
| 27 | A 1975/6 random daytime survey for the Department of the Environment revealed that over 7 per cent of the tapwater in England exceeded the EC limit while in Scotland the figure was over 34 per cent . |
| 28 | Even so , the 1974 Press Commission estimated that perhaps eight out of fifteen mornings they examined were being subsidized by an evening paper . |
| 29 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 30 | The chamber of trade responded that over 70 people objected to the Ivy Street scheme in a petition . |