Example sentences of "that many families " in BNC.

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1 But it is a pain that many families are having to live with as the number of those dying of AIDS increases .
2 Garrett ( 1986 ) quotes Hocking who called the syndrome ‘ miscare ’ and considers that many families begin their caring commitment with genuine concern and sympathy but become overwhelmed by the task , so the relationship sours , resulting in harm to the old person .
3 In 1820 Sir Frederick Adam published his Survey of the State of the Poor , in which he showed that throughout the shires rates of pay for labourers of all types were low , and that many families lived on small quantities of wheaten or barley bread , skimmed milk , cheese , potatoes and legumes , meat hardly ever figuring in their diet .
4 Reception from conventional ground-based transmission equipment is so bad that many families can watch television only if they receive signals piped in by cable .
5 Implicit in these views was the fact that child abuse was considered to be only one of a range of problems that many families who come under the system 's microscope were experiencing , and that there was a need to respond to all the problems including child abuse , rather than of necessity giving it priority .
6 It is known that many families emigrated to Canada during the fifty years from 1818 to 1868 and a great number of them came from the crofts .
7 The latest studies of the fossil record , however , suggested that many families had been subject to a constant trend towards increasing levels of specialization .
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