Example sentences of "[num] were [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree . |
| 2 | Three people died and fourteen were injured after an explosion at a chemical works in West Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Two people died and 62 were injured in an IRA attack on the 512-bedroom Hilton in 1975 . |
| 4 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 5 | Complementary pairs of oligonucleotides with the sequences indicated in Figure 1 were synthesized on an Applied Biosystems model 381A oligonucleotide synthesizer . |
| 6 | Attention has also been drawn to the evidence of continuing peasant unrest even after the mass disturbances of 1905–7 were brought to an end . |
| 7 | The 1880s/1890s were marked by an early challenge to the UK 's hegemony by the industrialization of Germany , other European countries and the United States . |
| 8 | The more liberal values of the 1960s were sustained in an unobtrusive , yet pervasive , climate of common attitudes shared by Home Office officials , special interest groups , and a respectable body of informed opinion . |
| 9 | When the two were placed in an aquarium the association became clear . |
| 10 | Nine patients ( 12.5% ) underwent a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for duct clearance which was successful in five , seven were done as an elective procedure and two as an emergency , at a median of two months ( range 0.25–7 ) . |