Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest initial 187 Os/ 188 Os recorded in the picrite basalts are within the range recorded for OIB , and therefore consistent with a sub-lithospheric , plume-related , origin . |
| 2 | Fifty-three patients participated in the rehabilitation programme and 63 acted as controls . |
| 3 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 4 | The spring and early summer of 1169 Henry spent in the south , taking and demolishing many of the castles from which the rebels had defied his authority . |
| 5 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 6 | More than 200 scientists from thirteen countries participated in the shuttle mission , which was designed to allow research in the materials and life sciences to take place under microgravity conditions . |
| 7 | Significant growth in the District following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations occurred in the Terminal course category . |
| 8 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 9 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , he had ‘ reliable and authenticated ’ information that more than 1,000 and possibly more than 2,000 people died in the attack . |
| 10 | As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting . |
| 11 | During the morning over 100 people participated in the open classes taken by Chris Ruffle and Jane Fisk , who was accompanied by Molly Scrutton . |
| 12 | On Jan. 7 demonstrations erupted in the Gaza Strip against the planned deportation of 12 Palestinians [ see this page ] . |
| 13 | As Seb stood beside Nahum in the chapel , awaiting Anna 's arrival , he glanced to where the six gipsies stood in the front pew of the chapel , brightly dressed , but decidedly ill at ease . |
| 14 | More than 100,000,000 voters participated in the elections , the highest number in US history . |
| 15 | Yesterday , another British armoured vehicle with six men arrived in the village . |
| 16 | He said that the existing system of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) had proved ineffectual , with over 500 SSSIs destroyed in the past two years , and that the legal protection to be given to SACs was still unclear . |
| 17 | Often these gloves were dipped in a mixture of glue and ground glass to produce terrifying results Almost one in three fights ended in the death of one of the competitors . |
| 18 | A black female cat sat on the floor while her three kittens squealed in the bath , said Mr Owens . |
| 19 | Some time around the Imperial year 2400 Grom engaged in the infamous eating contest described above . |
| 20 | Three seeds fell in the women 's event . |
| 21 | Up to three grenades exploded in the House of Representatives on July 10 , two hours before a memorial service for opposition leader Marc Atti Depe , who had been killed during the attack on Olympio . |
| 22 | McGowan 's three tries came in the opening 32 minutes , the best being his second , cleverly made after slick passing between Fox and Kiwi full-back Dave Watson , who showed surprising fitness on his return after a three-month ban for drug abuse . |
| 23 | Three schoolmasters lived in the house : one taught Latin , one mathematics and one music . |
| 24 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 25 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 26 | Nearly half of the commission 's 17 panels contained no women , for example , and fewer than half a dozen minorities participated in the exercise . |
| 27 | Normally three men travelled in the jeep although it was more comfortable with only two . |
| 28 | Three men stood in the entrance of the courtyard , waving sticks . |
| 29 | The two , named as Commander Abdelwahab Madjber and Captain Sadek Sayah , joined 21 others implicated in the killing including the presumed assassin , Lembarek Boumaraaf [ see pp. 38981 ; 39029-30 ] . |
| 30 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |