Example sentences of "[num] there [be] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1993 there are more than 150 independent organisations of users in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | By 1972 Walton had 64 stores , with sales of $125 million per annum , and thereafter growth was exponential : by 1991 there were more than 1,700 , with annual sales approaching $44 billion . |
| 3 | By 1991 there were more than 200 of these , and they were followed by further innovations : in 1987 Walton opened Hypermart USA store at Garland , Texas ( a shop with 220,000 square feet of retail space , known as ‘ Malls without walls ’ ) . |
| 4 | In that debate I was able to say that in Croydon in 1991 there were more than 40,000 enrolments for higher education , representing 20,000 to 30,000 students . |
| 5 | Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 . |
| 6 | The country was in the grip of economic depression , and in June 1921 there were more than two million out of work . |
| 7 | In 1978 there were more than 33,000 unions of this kind , some 90 per cent of the total , covering more than 12 million members . |
| 8 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |