Example sentences of "had [vb pp] between [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GAO report cites the instance of one storage tank which it estimated had leaked between 50,000 and 800,000 gallons of radioactive water over a ten-year period up to 1978 , against the operators ' reporting of 5,000 gallons . |
| 2 | All patients had received between 40 and 60Gy radiation in fractionated doses over 2–4 weeks for the treatment of epithelial tumours ; none had received chemotherapy or steroids . |
| 3 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 4 | He had fallen between two sharp jagged-edge boulders and the angry tide had battered his body between them . |
| 5 | The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new . |
| 6 | The Supreme Soviet in the Abkhaz ASSR voted on Aug. 25 ( with barely half of its 140 deputies in attendance ) to declare independence from Georgia and restoration of the full republican status Abkhazia had enjoyed between 1921 and 1930 . |
| 7 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 8 | In his guidelines , Sydney Newman had recommended between four and six episodes as ideal for each Doctor Who serial . |
| 9 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 10 | The report noted that advocates of re-introduction did not wish simply to limit the penalty to the same offences as those to which it had applied between 1861 and 1948 . |
| 11 | These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year . |
| 12 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response . |
| 14 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 15 | A previous study into gill net use and its effects in southwest England revealed a minimum of 1,800 birds had drowned between 1988 and 1991 . |
| 16 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 17 | After 1341 , however , the costs of war fell sharply from the levels they had reached between 1338 and 1341 , and not until the 1370s did they begin once again to approach those levels . |
| 18 | Cora-Beth 's foot had slipped between two of the bales and she had tumbled backwards , dragging Harry down on top of her . |
| 19 | In 1917 this group had comprised between 16 and 17 per cent of all railway employees . |
| 20 | Planned before the Gulf war , it formed part of the government 's privatization programme which had led between 1987 and 1990 to the privatization of some 80 state-owned businesses . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , given the increase in unemployment and the various crises in nationalized industries , public spending had increased between 1979 and 1983 . |
| 22 | What then had happened between 5 January and 1 March 1201 and why had Innocent declared for Otto before the council ? |
| 23 | The most recent bout of full-scale fighting between the LTTE and the armed forces , which had begun in northern and eastern Sri Lanka in June 1990 , had left between 3,000 and 5,000 people dead [ see pp. 37529-30 ; 37611 ; 37654 ; 37711 ; 37856 ] . |
| 24 | The coroner was told that he had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager . |
| 25 | They ended up in the George hotel , by then , the court heard , Mr pollard and his friends had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager each . |
| 26 | Nick Pollard had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager . |
| 27 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 28 | The British Market Research Bureau had examined how the sexual habits of homosexuals had changed between 1986 and 1989 . |
| 29 | Mozart 's technique had changed between 1777 and 1783 . |
| 30 | Judge Devaux , announcing sentence , said the injuries to Mr Chitty 's face had required between 20 and 30 stitches . |