Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says farm jobs in the EC 's 12 member states have fallen by an average of 2.8% every year for the past 30 years . |
| 2 | The South Africans claimed that between 600 and 800 SWAPO guerrillas had crossed from Angola into Ovamboland , their party 's home ground ; during the following three days , they said , another 500 or so came over . |
| 3 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 4 | Half of the total of 112 US advisers had arrived in Bolivia by April 24 , together with communications and transport equipment donated by the US government . |
| 5 | In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 . |
| 6 | Over 1,200 Thornaby residents have called on Stockton council to support their call for their own town council . |
| 7 | All 21 NESB branches have re-opened under the name of Citizens Bank . |
| 8 | Three cocaine smugglers have died in just over a month after swallowing their contraband to beat searches . |
| 9 | The answer to our Lords And Commons Cricket Competition is as follows : the three England Captains to have played for the LCC are Lord Harris , Sir Stanley Jackson MP and Lord Tennyson . |
| 10 | THREE Tyneside men have appeared in court charged with £15,000 armed robbery on a house at Iveston near Consett , County Durham . |
| 11 | Three business strategies have to interface with designing : |
| 12 | Since 1960 restoration techniques have progressed by leaps and bounds and light weight backing materials are now available , of which the honey-comb type would be particularly suited to the Ovetari Chapel frescoes . |
| 13 | At Shell Chemicals UK ( which employs 920 workers , 122 of whom are women ) over the past three years women have accounted for 42 per cent of the intake into chemical marketing and 25 per cent of the manufacturing intake . |
| 14 | By Cairnbaan only three motor yachts had puttered by . |
| 15 | The swans are one of three breeding pairs to have nested within 400 yards of each other on the river bank . |
| 16 | Altogether sixty three Halton Apprentices have gone from junior technician to High rank . |
| 17 | Three hospital units have applied for NHS trust status — South Ayrshire , the Royal Scottish national hospital and the Foresterhill hospitals group . |
| 18 | Launched in 1957 , it claimed 25,000 supporters by 1958 and by 1960 pacifist members had sailed into the Pacific testing grounds , boarded nuclear submarines or missile bases or simply refused to take shelter during bomb drills . |
| 19 | THREE Sellafield bikers have roared to success in the recent Wirral 100 road races . |
| 20 | A three-week strike by 11 teacher unions had ended on Sept. 20 when the government reached a settlement with nine of the unions whereby it would pay immediately the equivalent of US$1,600,000 in back salaries from 1987 and the remaining US$4,400,000 in the next fiscal year . |
| 21 | By March 1965 3,000 US Marines had landed in the North and by May an additional 72,000 troops had been sent in . |
| 22 | Several thousand government troops have assembled at a demobilisation camp just outside Maputo , the capital . |
| 23 | Since the 1970s fertility rates have dropped for all women in the UK irrespective of country of origin . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the members of the public who have seen the vehicles at exhibitions and conferences , it is estimated that more than 100,000 school girls have benefited from ‘ hands on ’ experience of new technologies . |
| 25 | Quite apart from members of the public who have seen the buses at exhibitions and conferences , it is estimated that more than 45,000 school girls have benefited from ‘ hands on ’ experience of new technologies . |
| 26 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 27 | Reinforcements were called and 25 police officers had to wade into the crowd to calm the situation . |
| 28 | In early March 95,000 coal workers had agreed to rises of 4.7 per cent for 12 months and a one-off payment of DM |
| 29 | Overall prevalence among 13–15 year olds has declined from 17% in 1975 , the year the ban was introduced , to 10% in 1990 . |
| 30 | The proportion of dependent children living in one parent families has increased by more than 50 per cent since the early 1970s . |