Example sentences of "that [adj] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is that the , the impact of quotes and the other improvements coming through in the second half of the year will reduce some of that impact anyway and also that that hundred thousand pounds overspend is sig is over-skewed because the proportion of quotes work in there is actually making a , making a difference too . |
| 2 | Did you know that 18.1 million overseas visitors came to Britain last year ? |
| 3 | A Khmer Rouge report on the same day alleged that some 200 Vietnamese troops had established themselves in Kampot province in mid-August . |
| 4 | So that some two thousand people were involved in a major training programme . |
| 5 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 6 | US estimates suggested that some 750 Iraqi tanks , 650 artillery pieces and 600 armoured personnel carriers in the Kuwaiti theatre of operations had been destroyed . |
| 7 | Some reports estimated that some 7,000 Kuwaiti civilians had been killed by Iraqi forces by the end of the year . |
| 8 | These data contrast with those of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues ( 1986 ) which opines that some 230 million people are directly threatened by desertification and that annually 21 million ha are rendered almost or completely unproductive . |
| 9 | The conference had been told on Dec. 5 that some 780 million people in the world 's developing countries had insufficient food for their daily needs , that 190 million children aged under five suffered from malnutrition [ see this page for UNICEF report ] , and that up to 2,000 million people were suffering less serious dietary shortages . |
| 10 | It 's estimated that some fifty thousand workers took part in the strike , which paralysed the country and threw the new government of Senora Chamorro into crisis . |
| 11 | Organised by the Aspen Institute in Italy , the meeting considered the facts that some 120 coastal cities discharge their sewage into the Mediterranean , around 85 per cent of it untreated . |
| 12 | Running this through the sophisticated computer models for atmospheric chemistry that now exist , the group calculates that some 50 000 tonnes pa of ethane or propane would have to be injected into the stratosphere to mop up the free chlorine created each Antarctic spring . |
| 13 | On Aug. 28 , it was reported that some 1,000 Italian troops would assist with the distribution of US$85,000,000 worth of Italian food aid , sufficient to meet Albania 's requirement for three months . |
| 14 | The figures suggest that some 1200 excess cases of leukaemia may have been caused in Britain by the Windscale accident , since leukaemia deaths account for some 15 per cent of cancers attributable to nuclear accidents , the total toll of cancer deaths suggested is 8000 . |
| 15 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 16 | In the United States it is reported that some 35 million heart attacks and strokes occur each year . |
| 17 | The regional plan for the South-east proposes that some 57,000 new homes should be provided each year . |
| 18 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 19 | Money would be appreciated so that some half-dozen good prizes can be purchased . |
| 20 | The United States Carter Centre , incorporating the Council for Freely Elected Heads of Government , which was supervising electoral preparations , had found in October that some 130,000 eligible voters had been omitted from the electoral register of a potential 350,000 names and that others were registered in the wrong areas . |
| 21 | The UK Atomic Energy Authority , in a " worst-case scenario " , suggested that some 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide . |
| 22 | Banks estimates that some 3 million pamphlets and leaflets were circulated between 1879 and 1921 urging family limitation , while over 1 million between 1876 and 1891 gave details of contraception . |
| 23 | A BRITISH minister has revealed that some 300 000 names of people who have committed , or are suspected of committing , offences under immigration law have been entered onto a computerised index used by the immigration service . |
| 24 | Israeli immigration officials confirmed on April 10 that some 300 Albanian Jews ( almost the entire Jewish community in Albania ) had been airlifted to Israel in recent weeks . |
| 25 | How could he think — how could he possibly expect that this one dramatic gesture would wipe out all that had already passed between them ? |
| 26 | Perhaps they just find it comforting to think that this one earthly life is not the beginning and end of it all . |
| 27 | Reliant said it was surprised to hear the Robin was considered unworthy of its own category , adding that 49 000 previous owners ca n't be wrong . |
| 28 | Reliant said it was surprised to hear the Robin was considered unworthy of its own category , adding that 49 000 previous owners ca n't be wrong . |
| 29 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 30 | It has now been agreed that another two such seminars will be held and Douglas will shortly be asking for nominations to attend . |