Example sentences of "in [adj] there were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 there were 5,800 miles of railway line in Canada ; by 1935 there were 45,000 miles . |
| 2 | Thus , in England and Wales in 1971 there were 311,000 students in advanced further education , of whom 204,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including 113,000 on initial teacher training , and 107,000 on part-time courses . |
| 3 | In 1971 there were 483,000 divorcees who had not remarried , compared to the 1989 figure of 2.4 million . |
| 4 | In 1770 there were frequent references to the white-and-red type in the Dendre valley , whereas in the south of East Flanders the population was uniformly red . |
| 5 | In 1986 there were 146 management companies , managing over 800 unit trusts . |
| 6 | In 1985 there were two developments . |
| 7 | In 1985 there were large seminars or workshops on the impact of microprocessors on employment , on telecommunications , the process-equipment industries , the food processing industry , the management of technical change in Japan , the prospective developments in medicial technologies , a large number on changing skill requirements , co-operation in pre-competitive R&D , the future of the UK steel industry , and on the potential impact of technical change on the employability of the less able . |
| 8 | In 1985 there were 24 convictions for murder , but there were only eight in 1990 . |
| 9 | In 1985 there were 66 applications for judicial review and the number was on the decline . |
| 10 | In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 . |
| 11 | Yet its numbers are not high : in 1985 there were 1,918 pedigree breeding females and 47 bulls in Britain . |
| 12 | In 1970 and again in 1970–80 there were diplomatic skirmishes between the United States and the USSR over Soviet attempts to emplace support barges at Cienfuegos clearly intended to allow for the operation of Soviet nuclear submarines out of Cuba . |
| 13 | In 1892 there were 64 trade stands , this year there were 650 . |
| 14 | From 1360 until the complete collapse of the Imperial system in 1979 there were two Emperors : the elected Emperor and the Elector Count of Talabecland , who continued to claim hereditary position as Emperor following the self-appointed reign of Ottilia . |
| 15 | In 1979 there were 3,080 barristers practising in central London and 1,283 spread over the rest of england and Wales ; considering that most courts are now decentralised , this certainly seems to indicate an imbalance . |
| 16 | When the king died in 1490 there were 150 codexes in the copyists ’ workshops . ’ |
| 17 | In 1991 there were two cases , with a total value of £4.275 million . |
| 18 | In Perth in 1991 there were 162 teams taking part but Bryan O'Neill , the director of the Irish operation , has already received entries for 144 teams — and there are still 12 months to go . |
| 19 | A report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , published on Aug. 13 , found that in 1991 there were 39,800 members of extreme right-wing organizations ( including 24,000 in the German People 's Union — DVU — for whose showing in April 1992 state elections see p. 38871 ) . |
| 20 | In 1991 there were 2,300 asylum requests . |
| 21 | In 1991 there were 553,000 deaths , compared with 547,000 births . |
| 22 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 23 | In 1991 there were 3.3 workers per pensioner ; by 2030 there could be just 2.2 . |
| 24 | In 1991 there were 4,046 rapes , a rise of 17 per cent on the previous year , 766 kidnaps and 411 abductions . |
| 25 | In 1991 there were 3,099 accidents in Lothian which involved : |
| 26 | In 1086 there were 278 salt-pools in Lincolnshire , in Sussex 285 , and many other coastal counties had a considerable salt industry at this period . |
| 27 | In 1932 there were violent demonstrations , several of them leading to serious riots . |
| 28 | In 1969 there were three generations of the Holmes family taking part , father , son and grandson . |
| 29 | Thus in 1965 , there were about 284,000 emigrants ( compared with 206,000 immigrants ) , and in 1975 there were 238,000 emigrants ( compared with 197,000 immigrants ) . |
| 30 | On an average day in 1999 there were 49,979 people in prison in England and Wales , in a prison system which had room for only 44 , 179 . |