Example sentences of "[num] children [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act does not define an age when children are competent to give evidence , but case law has tended to set a figure of around seven or eight .
2 This event was the fourth major Living History Exhibition run by the SWSHAS and was visited by some 300 children and 150 adults .
3 There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes .
4 He was 35 , married with 2 children and had been in the brigade for 11 years .
5 Both men are charged with causing the deaths of 2 children and 3 teenagers by driving recklessly in two seperate cars .
6 Of Gallagher , it said that by pulling into Gooch 's path he caused Gooch 's car to swerve and so contributed to the deaths of the 5. 2 children and 3 teenagers were killed .
7 If you have forty children and desks for all of them , a set of recommended texts and a full complement of teaching time , the syllabus is for you and the texts help you .
8 Mr Wood was one of 12 children but none of his nine sisters or two brothers ever shared his interest .
9 In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution .
10 If so the Harrises with their 7 children and several animals could be out within a fortnight .
11 By the time I was released we were very overcrowded — over 90 of us with 10 children as well .
12 Asthma affects one in 10 children and between two and three million people in Britain .
13 Allitt , formerly a nurse at Grantham Hospital in Lincolnshire , denies murdering four children , the attempted murder of 10 children and a woman of 79 and alternative charges of grievous bodily harm .
14 Well my mother had six children but the first baby died and we ere there was another five .
15 Achievement of very high parity ( six children or more ) occurs much more frequently in developing than in developed countries and , from the information at hand , at least , it appears that the effect of maternal age and parity upon maternal health may be more profound in the developing regions ; certainly , related illnesses affect more women and with more devastating results .
16 Yeah , but you ca n't say that because I know someone with six children and they 've
17 His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn .
18 And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out .
19 But in the first instance , as I say we , I was one of six children and er I do n't think there was one working while they was , I mean they was all born before there was anybody old enough to work , you find , that 's And our Albert , me dad had Albert up and he er never give me mother any wages for Albert .
20 At the one direction it 's these people next door to us I 've lived there what , twenty six , twenty seven years , and we , I 've people living next door , six children and never a any noise to what we get in there .
21 Already six children and the two adults were cramped into the Salvation Army quarters at Tighes Hill , Newcastle , a mining town in Eastern Australia .
22 If he says you 've got six children and you work at the local factory , you do , yes ?
23 Ralph is one of six children and Denise the youngest but one of 13 brothers and sisters .
24 The 1988 Licensing Act and the 1991 Children and Young Persons ( Protection from Tobacco ) Act have deleted the words ‘ knowingly ’ and ‘ apparently ’ .
25 He himself was one of thirteen children and his own offspring numbered eighteen !
26 Their powers were accordingly widened by the 1963 Children and Young persons Act , which gave local authorities a duty to prevent and forestall the suffering of children through neglect in their own homes .
27 We can contrast , for example , the comparatively strict ways in which regulations under the 1986 Social Security Act instruct local authorities in the administration of housing rebates , with powers given ( originally in the 1963 Children and Young Persons Act , now in the 1980 Child Care Act ) to local authorities to make money payments , in exceptional circumstances to prevent children being taken into care , where no attempt has been made to prescribe how this should be done .
28 The age of criminal responsibility was set at ten in England and Wales by the 1963 Children and Young Persons Act .
29 St Edward 's Primary in Middlesbrough completed a 50/50 arrangement which began when 26 children and 14 adults travelled to Wagenberg and Terjheyden last Easter .
30 In Hamburg , 300,000 children and adults joined hands for 7.5 miles in a silent candle-lit demonstration against neo-Nazi attacks .
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