Example sentences of "[n mass] have [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of this group 18% have confined themselves to one sexual partner ; 10% have had more than 20 ; half have had between 2 and 9 ; 7% pare unable to make a reliable estimate . |
| 2 | And 1,244 of the 926,939 people have waited more than two years — despite a Tory pledge this would n't happen . |
| 3 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
| 4 | This means that other people have to wait longer than necessary to see a doctor ; if we could charge non-attenders , as dentists do , it would help . |
| 5 | Local people have raised more than half a million pounds to keep the hospital open . |
| 6 | A great many people gave ‘ mind an strength ’ in neighbourly love this Christian Aid Week ; and simply because more people have worked harder and given more generously , over 41,000 will go to the work of Christian Aid with the poorest 5% of the world , where 176 in every 1,000 children die before the age of 5 . |
| 7 | Most people have experienced directly or through reading about it the business of opinion research . |
| 8 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 9 | Thus when direct taxes are increased , they reduce people 's net incomes — the income effect — with the result that people have to work harder if they want to maintain , let alone improve , their standard of living . |
| 10 | I 'm surprised I 've had so few reactions but its holiday time and I guess a lot of people have smiled anyway and remembered its the ‘ silly season ’ ! |
| 11 | Once again sales have moved well and terminations actually showing a slight improvement over last year ! |
| 12 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |