Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three petitions containing more than 2,200 signatures were received in opposition to the proposals for Dixon 's Bank , Marton . |
| 2 | This collection of eight essays is derived from the annual Darwin College lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1991 . |
| 3 | Only 243 houses were completed , at an average price of £71,000 each , compared with 417 completions at £73,400 in 1991 . |
| 4 | There were 396 shooting incidents ( 406 in 1989 ) , 167 explosions ( 224 ) with an estimated weight of 5,392 lb ( 12,114 lb ) ; 120 bombs were neutralized ( 196 ) with an estimated weight of 15,328 lb ( 13,662 lb ) and 438 armed robberies ( 541 ) in which £1,728,685 was stolen ( £1,079,399 ) . |
| 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 | Examples include the area of metalling alongside the north-south road at Dorchester-on-Thames , the open area south of the basilican building at Godmanchester , the area south of the temple at Irchester and the gravel areas flanking the temple at Wycomb , from which 1100 coins were recovered . |
| 7 | During the ten-year period from 1951 to 1961 , 1,640 houses were built : |
| 8 | Only 500 copies are said to have been printed . |
| 9 | The survey will be begun to be made , as soon as 500 copies are subscribed for , and it is eagerly requested that such as wish to become subscribers , will be as early as possible in signifying their names , that the proposer may embrace the opportunity of surveying all the streets this summer , which can not be conveniently done after 7 o'clock in the morning , on account of the interruption of carriage . |
| 10 | The honourable draw had to wait till Old Trafford , although over eleven hours were lost to the weather . |
| 11 | Serum concentration-time curves over eight hours were obtained from 34 healthy volunteers after a single oral dose of 400 to 500 mg of the different drugs . |
| 12 | Serum concentration-time curves over eight hours were obtained from 34 healthy volunteers after a single oral intake of 500 mg Pentasa ( n=5 ) , two Claversal 250 mg tablets ( n=5 ) , one Claversal 500 mg tablet ( n=8 ) , 1000 mg Salazopyrin ( n=5 ) , 500 mg Dipentum ( n=5 ) , or 400 mg Asacol ( n=6 ) . |
| 13 | Although most enterprises limited their protests to putting up flags and posters , work stoppages ranging from 15 minutes to eight hours were reported from some districts . |
| 14 | Ambulatory manometry lasting approximately eight hours was performed with a Gaeltec ( Dunvegan , Isle of Skye IV55 8GU ) Manometric catheter with three miniaturised solid state transducers placed 5 cm apart in its distal 10 cm , connected proximally to a Synectics ( 215 Willow Road , Enfield , Middlesex ) multichannel microdigitrapper . |
| 15 | The parasite was originally described in 1907 but the first human case was not recognised until 1976 and only eight cases were described in the literature before 1982 . |
| 16 | There was an upper limit of £50,000 on the amount of aid , and only about 500 projects were approved between 1971 and 1977 ( Marquand 1979 ) . |
| 17 | A final list of eight proposals was chosen for support and these ( showing institution and course title ) were : |
| 18 | Women 's sanitary protection last came under scrutiny with the Toxic Shock Syndrome , a disease where 2,200 cases were reported in the United States up to June 1983 proving fatal in 5% of instances between 1976 and 1982 . |
| 19 | Fifty cases were adopted by the unit in 1986/7 from bureaux who needed additional assistance . |
| 20 | In 1971 plans were established to provide an international switching language which could indicate the subject fields of all publications . |
| 21 | Eight artists were given grants to develop work specifically for sites in Norwich and at the Norfolk Institute . |
| 22 | In this form it will handle 600 activities ; a memory expansion unit to raise this figure to 3000 activities is expected to be available in 1990 . |
| 23 | Everywhere the conversation was of children 's books , because of Shona Innes ' popular quiz , of course 550 copies were sold . |
| 24 | Eight houses were demolished before building on the palace began by Aostalli in 1562–4 . |
| 25 | Eleven cases were identified where the media coverage lasted more than one day . |
| 26 | The photocopying services were much used ; more than 160,000 copies were made in total , over 6,000 of these being supplied by post or fax . |
| 27 | For each of the 16 pairs of histograms shown , 200–212 nuclei were examined . |
| 28 | On Aug. 19 the first of 23,108 prisoners were released from prison as a result of a presidential pardon issued on Peasants ' Day , July 7 . |
| 29 | In 1985 a further eleven programmes were introduced in England and Wales and one more in Scotland . |
| 30 | A total of eight calls were made that day and although a routine became evident , it was never repetitive . |