Example sentences of "pairs [be] found " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so many urban areas on the coast it is not surprising that Herring Gulls nest on buildings in Sussex , and during the Operation Seafarer counts of 1969 between 106 and 131 pairs were found in the Hastings and St. Leonards district , and nests have more recently been recorded at Eastbourne , Brighton , and Worthing . |
| 2 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 3 | Thus , between 1965 and 1976 between one and seven pairs were found present annually , nearly all in West Sussex , compared with up to four pairs between 1950 and 1956 . |
| 4 | Again , much higher densities may occur on the chalk , and 14 pairs were found nesting in a three-acre patch of kale at Burpham in 1969 , an extraordinary concentration . |
| 5 | When these were matched and pairs of hearing signers were established , only eight pairs were found in our data where people acquiring sign before the age of 25 years had similar experience to those who had acquired it after the age of 30 years . |
| 6 | During the rearing period , about one in 10 pairs were found to lose one parent , usually the male , through desertion or predation . |
| 7 | Only 88 pairs were found in Scotland , 74 on the island of Islay , with 177 pairs in Wales . |