Example sentences of "[num] of them " in BNC.
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| 1 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 2 | George Friel took his goal tally for the season to 35 , the others coming from Francis Vines and Steve Milton in front of a crowd of 1,184 — an estimated 800 of them Woking supporters . |
| 3 | The documents are of two types : party election manifestos or their equivalents ( about 800 of them ) : and government statements of their programme ( the equivalent of the British Queen 's speech ) . |
| 4 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 5 | In 1896 France had 575,000 manufacturing établissements ; they had an average of 5.5 workers each and only 151 of them employed more than a thousand people . |
| 6 | Of the 1,533 men under 5ft 6ins , 118 of them suffered a heart attack compared with only 62 of the 1,533 men who were over 5ft 10ins . |
| 7 | On either side of this scene there crouches a human watcher and the air is filled with small birds — thirty-one of them altogether . |
| 8 | Assault Boats are , as their description implies , not for pleasurable pursuits , although the construction of 8,442 of them gave the craftsmen of Wolverton , skilled in the art of carriage building , an opportunity to employ their talents . |
| 9 | In 1989 , 780,000 children under 5 were receiving day care in the United Kingdom , only 34,000 of them in state day nurseries ( 50,000 were in private nurseries and the remainder with playgroups and child minders ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is estimated that one-half of them have to depend on state benefits . |
| 11 | As noted earlier , estimates of the number of second homes in the United Kingdom indicate that about one-half of them are caravans or mobile homes . |
| 12 | On one unsettling day 13 professionals were released , 12 of them on free transfers . |
| 13 | There were 14 British players — 12 of them English — in the field , yet home interest ended in the second round , with only Peter Marshall showing any prospect of progressing further . |
| 14 | It is 11 am and we count 43 shrouded bodies — 12 of them babies , another eight young children . |
| 15 | Anthony Smith , of the Consumers ' Association , said they had received 21 complaints about the machines — 12 of them describing serious fires . |
| 16 | In the 16 constipated children with colonic contractions the motility index did not significantly increase after the meal ( 2.1 ( SEM 0.3 ) mm Hg/min basal v 3.1 ( SEM 0.4 ) mm Hg/ min postprandial ) and 12 of them had no HAPCs ( p<0.01 v group without constipation ) . |
| 17 | Clinically , an acute self limiting obstructive condition was evident in 13 cases with AA , and 12 of them returned to normal bowel function after receiving total parenteral nutrition . |
| 18 | Whitmore recorded 29 types of tree around such a village in Trengganu , noting that 12 of them were identical with wild forest trees , such as the rambutan ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) and the sentul ( Sandoricum koetjape , Meliaceae ) , a further six appeared to be selected and improved forms of wild trees , five were cultigens like the betel nut , and three were exotics , like the papaya ( Carica papaya , a New World cultigen ) . |
| 19 | A week ago he was successful … 13 baby boas were produced in the same litter , 12 of them survived . |
| 20 | Twenty MPs 12 of them from Merseyside signed a Commons motion slamming the Mossley Hill MP for ‘ voting for the survival of this discredited Conservative Government . ’ |
| 21 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 22 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 23 | Some 27,000 classic cabs are still roaming the streets of Britain , 17,500 of them in London . |
| 24 | The room can , in fact hold up to 140 of them . |
| 25 | Around 250 responses were received last year commenting on the group 's initial consultation paper , and 140 of them found fault . |
| 26 | There are 3 heads to the triceps ; 2 of them have their origins on the humerus and the third originates on the shoulder blade . |
| 27 | In the cytogenetic study only 3 metaphases were evaluable , 2 of them being normal and the other 3n . |
| 28 | Marcus Browning claimed 2 of them . |
| 29 | Also in 1983 , SAFER sold off 5,223 hectares , 2,447 hectares of which went to enlarge existing farms , ( 69% by area in the Zone de Montagne ) and 1,276 hectares to create 77 new farm units , 49 of them in the Zone de Montagne . |
| 30 | 65 came from 68 balls , with 53 of them debited to the Warwickshire man . |