Example sentences of "have [vb pp] some [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our planet has seen some eighty billion people , it is difficult to suppose that every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures . |
| 2 | In total , Cornwall has produced some 2 million tonnes of tin , according to estimates . |
| 3 | ‘ According to my information your book has sold some eight thousand copies in the English language and the print figure in the Spanish edition was twenty-five thousand . |
| 4 | Going down a sporting memory lane has enticed some 16 million people to pay their cable-TV charge to watch the fight . |
| 5 | He has processed some 72 detailed enquiries with assistance from his colleagues in Tokyo and has arranged articles and publicity for 35 Scottish products in JETRO 's Import Business News Magazine . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 7 | The LELC is available on a custom basis , and the present project has acquired some 13 million words of text from this corpus . |
| 8 | He 'd stayed some three hundred yards away from her when she actually crossed over in the golf course into er a wooded area . |
| 9 | I 'd slotted in , by mistake , a tape on which I 'd recorded some sixties pop music for a party , and which I 'd never run back . |
| 10 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 11 | That would have meant some twelve hundred acres freed for building , a catastrophic thought . |
| 12 | The volcanic eruptions are thought to have finished some 1.7 million years ago , and the volcanoes are considered extinct . |
| 13 | In addition to making large payments to the Inagawa-kai crime syndicate , Hiroyasu Watanabe , former president of the Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin trucking company , who was due to stand trial later in the year , was alleged to have paid some 70,000 million yen or more to around 130 members of the Diet . |
| 14 | I 'd also like to say that I 've received some twenty nine representations from constituents in my ward all of whom live in my ward who are opposed to fox hunting and have asked me today to vote to ban fox hunting on our land and I 've only received two representations from official bodies the video and , and a representation from the British Field Sports Association erm , in favour of fox hunting . |
| 15 | By the end of October we had received some 38,800 principal applications during this calendar year . |
| 16 | Since 1966 France had detonated some 200 atmospheric and underground nuclear tests at Fangataufa and Mururoa atolls in French Polynesia . |
| 17 | On Feb. 9 Albanian police had prevented some 5,000 would-be emigrants from sailing from Durrës , the port ( 30 km west of Tirana , the Albanian capital ) from which a group of Albanians been allowed to leave for Brindisi in July 1990 [ see p. 37618 ] . |
| 18 | The Minister of the Interior , José Luis Manzano , revealed on Feb. 4 that the government of Juan Domingo Perón , which had ruled the country between 1946 and 1955 , had issued some 2,000 Argentinian passports to German Nazi fugitives in the years after the war . |
| 19 | I 've put some two new , you hook them on . |
| 20 | The Lusaka casualty was originally owned by Pan American and had accumulated some 54 000 flying hours with that company before it was sold to Dan Air , and then a further 2000 flying hours were added before the accident occurred . |
| 21 | Dr Sequeira and his team have inherited some 65 long-stay patients who have no family and no prospects of living in the community without financial and other support . |