Example sentences of "had a [noun] of some " in BNC.

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1 Almost half of the county 's 172 parishes had a school of some kind by 1807 , including almost all of those with a population of a thousand or more .
2 Everyone had a friend of some sort .
3 Even her brothers were kind , though embarrassed and Clara , as she sat there picking endlessly at the fringe of the tablecloth , had a vision of some other world where violent emotion could be a thing of beauty , where even tears could be admitted and not ignored , where good taste in tomb stones consisted not in cheap restrained economy of design , fabric , and word , but of marble angels wildly grieving .
4 Abu Musa had a population of some 700 UAE citizens .
5 ‘ I had a gift of some wine . ’
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