Example sentences of "had [adv] [num] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK had only four representatives in the first , prosperous , half of the list : Norwich ( 23 ) , Brighton ( 28 ) , London ( 34 ) and Leicester ( 35 ) . |
| 2 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 3 | Mr Hyde had only two rooms in the house . |
| 4 | Described as " red patriots " the group had only eight deputies in the Supreme Soviet , but observers noted that the ideas which it promoted were gathering increasing support in Russia . |
| 5 | They had only one chance in the game and they took it . |
| 6 | HEALTH Service executives Neville and Carole Baggaley had only one complaint with the petrol Ford Escort they used for their daily 75-mile round trip to work : its thirst . |
| 7 | Their problem was that they had only one sanction with the British government and that was a general strike . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the grammar schools existing separately from secondary modern schools edgily defended their difference and their rights — even if one of them had only six pupils in the upper sixth . |
| 9 | When the fighting began the UN had only 100 soldiers in the north , most of them signallers and engineers . |
| 10 | Any President has difficulty making a substantial impact even in a full term , and Kennedy tragically had only three years in the highest office . |
| 11 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 12 | Kissing and cuddling the tot she feared she would never see again Bernadette , 24 , had just one word for the emotional homecoming : ‘ Brilliant . ’ |
| 13 | I had just one weekend of the melting snow and slush on the fells — very wet indeed — during testing , with no possibility of drying the boots after the first day . |
| 14 | Tug had just one glimpse of the girl 's horror as her mouth and her eyes opened wide . |
| 15 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 16 | He had just one line in The Commitments but he 'll do a thousand more tonight . |
| 17 | Yet twenty years later , largely as a result of the work of Maurepas , an energetic Secretary of State , she had nearly 50 ships of the line and was once more clearly the second-greatest European naval power The war of 1744–48 with Great Britain meant fairly heavy losses ; but by 1754 she possessed 57 ships of the line and 24 frigates . |
| 18 | This party , which had about 20,000 members at the end of 1990 , has now joined the Democratic Russia movement and abandoned its socialist programme . |
| 19 | The only street fell steeply down towards the secondary gateway to the Manor and had about fifteen cottages on the east side of the road . |
| 20 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 21 | Leicester had about 600 households at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign and was largely contained within its medieval walls , surrounded by open , arable fields . |
| 22 | ‘ We had around 40 applicants for the editor of Kerrang , which included postmen and milkmen . ’ |
| 23 | The car was , after all , three years old and had over 50,000 miles on the clock . |