Example sentences of "[Wh adv] many [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 2 | I began to wonder how many of them would buy Tremayne 's book . |
| 3 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 4 | How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ? |
| 5 | He had received several enthusiastic offers , though he wondered how many of them would really turn up in church . |
| 6 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 7 | Erm of the conversations you had during the week about how many of them would you say you recorded ? |
| 8 | They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers . |
| 9 | The Department of Justice also published the names of 787 people granted indemnity for leaving the country without authority , although it was not clear how many of them could still be liable for prosecution for other offences . |
| 10 | Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ? |
| 11 | About a hundred people have been invited , but I 'm not sure how many of them will come . |
| 12 | He nodded to them and asked Luib , partly because he was interested , partly because he needed to get his breath back : ‘ How many of them will make Hearthwares ? ’ |
| 13 | I wonder how many of them will fill their pages tomorrow or the day after in the way they have done in the past few weeks . |
| 14 | To answer this correctly you need to analyse the tasks that face you currently to decide how many of them can be handed on immediately , or later with careful preparation . |
| 15 | How many of them can dance sing and act ? |
| 16 | Yeah , but I wonder how many of them can answer these questions |
| 17 | How many of them can I have ? |
| 18 | It is small wonder that the tree is an endangered species when you consider how many of them must be chopped down to provide one week 's worth of trade press . |
| 19 | How many of you would watch it ? |
| 20 | Come on people : How many of you would turn down such a contract if it were offered to you . |
| 21 | Well it 's and how many of you would want the break ? |
| 22 | How many of you would have actually switched off by now ? |
| 23 | How many of you Can I just ask hands up , think if you die everything you go Everything you have goes to your spouse ? |
| 24 | Erm , it 's my great contribution to science , unfortunately I shall be long dead , and many of yo some of you may , I do n't know how many of you will still be alive in two thousand and forty six , but if you are , you may see this day . |
| 25 | All right then , how many of your would like to try a session in a flotation tank ? |
| 26 | Otherwise how many of us would be here ? |
| 27 | Let's face it : how many of us would want to live here ? |
| 28 | How many of us would n't be happy to make it through a half century in half as good shape . |
| 29 | How many of us would be prepared to give up a year or more of life to pay back a debt from which we never benefitted , to satisfy the banks ? |
| 30 | ‘ How many of us would be able to … you know … go on living here ? ’ |