Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [n mass] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 13 the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report claiming that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in the previous six months and criticizing the provisions of the emergency powers decreed in early November which allowed the disposal of bodies by the security forces without a post-mortem or inquest [ see p. 37007 ] . |
| 2 | Roughly one in ten people surveyed were obese . |
| 3 | Roughly one in ten people surveyed were obese . |
| 4 | Densities of 2.64 to 2.73 g/cc have been measured for relatively clean sandstones . |
| 5 | On Wednesday a spokeswoman for the Saatchi Collection told The Independent that ‘ approximately 40 to 50 works have been sold ’ , but she was equally insistent that the motive behind the sales was Saatchi 's desire to shift the emphasis of the collection more towards British art . |
| 6 | Many thousands of young fish have been marked soon after they hatched . |
| 7 | Whatever the reasons for their change from their nautiloid ancestors , the ammonoids were an enormously successful group : thousands of different species have been described , and their variety is so bewildering that many specialists devote their lives to studying only the ammonoids of a particular , short time period . |
| 8 | Thousands of dead fish have been appearing in the river Allier in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . |
| 9 | Dozens of disabled people have been taking to the water learning how to sail . |
| 10 | Although sponges are widely distributed in the fossil record they are particularly numerous and easy to collect in Cretaceous rocks in Europe and North America , where dozens of well-preserved species have been described . |