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Example sentences of "there [be] [num] [n mass] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	There are nine species of skunks with a combined range that covers nearly all of North , Central and South America .
2	There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide , all confined to the southern hemisphere .
3	There are two species of colugo , the Malayan and the Philippine .
4	‘ Although if there are two people at odds you may lose a bit because they are not going to get their ideas together .
5	THERE are 27 works on view from seven contributors .
6	‘ There are 100,000 people in Britain with Parkinson 's Disease .
7	There are 200 species of primate , 90 per cent of them living in the tropical rainforests of Asia , Africa and South and Central America .
8	There are five species of Dorylus or driver ants living in the same area of Africa .
9	There are 14 people in Documentation and the department was established seven years ago when the old Royal Scottish Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities merged to become the National Museums of Scotland .
10	For example , in the New World the largely tropical groups , the cotingas and manikins. are together represented by only 140 species , whereas there are 370 species of flycatcher ( Tyrannidae ) and 220 species of antbird ( Formicariidae ) .
11	‘ There are 25,000 people in Halewood and they have been short-changed since the psychiatric services were based in Rainhill Hospital and Whiston .
12	There are three works by Francis Cadell ( 1883-1937 ) , another of the Scottish Colourists , included in the sale .
13	There are three species of zebra .
14	Interestingly , there are three species of waxbill that share identical mouth markings and all are parasitised by the pintailed whydah .
15	In the services , it is estimated that for every front-line soldier there are twenty people in support .
16	There are seven species of deer in Britain .
17	Even berries from adjacent bushes can taste quite different , with hints of grape , cherry , plum , and subtly varied textures , reminding you that there are 400 micro-species of bramble in Britain .
18	there were 2,208 people on board with lifeboat accommodation for only 1,178 ; additionally many lifeboats left partially filled .
19	Oh there were two pair of ones
20	There were twelve people on Harker 's Rock .
21	In 1981 there were 5,200,000 people in Britain aged 65 — 74 and 3,300,000 aged 75 + ( see Table 5.5 ) .
22	Up to 30 September 1991 there were 588 people with HIV infection through injecting drug use in Lothian .
23	He estimated that there were 108 species of land birds , only nine of which were found in islands to the westward and nineteen to the east .
24	There were seven people on board , three received back injuries , a five year old boy walked away unhurt .
25	In 1945 , when today 's welfare state was born , there were seven people of working age to each person aged over 65 .
26	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 .
27	When therefore I perceived that there were three species of liberty which are essential to the happiness of social life , religious , domestic and civil , and as I 've already written concerning the first , and the magistrates were strenuously active in obtaining the third , I determined to turn my attention to the second , or the domestic species .
28	There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could .
29	there 's four people in Northern Ireland doing it .
30	You know , now that is , that is when somebody is trying to take you further , there 's , there 's , there 's the food , there 's been a food , I do n't know , food , food poisoning outbreak in a well-known city restaurant or something like that , there 's thirty people in hospital , a couple are pretty serious , there 's a general flap on because it 's the height of the tourist season in Cambridge , and you 've been called in .