Example sentences of "many were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly true that there were very few Labour Party full-time agents in the armed forces , but one major reason for this was that there were so few of them even in peacetime , and , of those who existed , many were above the age of military service . |
| 2 | As many were at the Very Severe upper end of difficulty , he developed quite a reputation for fearlessness . |
| 3 | How many were at the school ? |
| 4 | ‘ We may never know exactly how many were on the ferry , ’ US Coast Guard Petty Officer Joe Dye said yesterday in Miami . |
| 5 | So , however disillusioned many were with the Tories and however much that swayed what they told the pollsters , they simply could not afford the extra tax burdens promised by Labour and the Liberal Democrats . |
| 6 | Many were from the Polish part of Russia . |
| 7 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 8 | He showed a box of matches , shook them and asked a volunteer to guess how many were in the box . |