Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 2 | Er every , every employer who has laid people off has mentioned making er strident efforts to er replace people alternative employment , some they already have but , in many cases of course they have not . |
| 3 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 4 | If I want to count how many chairs there are in my college , I have little problem about deciding which of the many objects in college I am going to include in my count . |
| 5 | If you want to know how many units of alcohol you drink , look up the type of drink in the left column . |
| 6 | No cos it wer No it 's just the fact she wants to go to a veterinary nurse you see , I wanted t them Do n't want her be in contact with too many animals in case they have s do n't wan na get . |
| 7 | She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range . |
| 8 | But after so many years in showbusiness it was n't surprising . |
| 9 | The children then dive for them and see how many items of treasure they can catch . |
| 10 | Where there is no capital punishment , however , the question of how many degrees of homicide it is desirable to have calls for careful weighing of the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( l ) ) against the cost and time arguments mobilised by the policy of efficient administration ( see Chapter 3.3 ( m ) ) . |
| 11 | Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows . |
| 12 | And if you drink as much tea as you say you do , just think how many teaspoons of sugar you have a day , extra . |
| 13 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 14 | Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure . |
| 15 | I have you know I 've been going round and testing how many miles per galleon you can get out of it |
| 16 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food how many miles of hedgerow he expects to be planted in the United Kingdom over each of the next three years . |
| 17 | Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust . |