Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In just two hours of operation , more than £3,000 of business had been done . |
| 2 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 3 | Military analysts estimated that control of over 2,500 sq km of territory had been lost to the guerrilla forces in six weeks . |
| 4 | Terminal ileal biopsy specimens were taken at ileocolonoscopy ( four patients ) for patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis and by the ileostomy of two patients who had a colectomy for UC ( histological reports state that 2 and 4 cm of ileum had been resected with the colectomy ) . |
| 5 | Despite pleas from the Channel Tunnel companies the project was abandoned on January 20 1975 after some 300m of tunnel had been bored on the French side and 400m on the British . |
| 6 | ( A claim by the US military that 50 kg of cocaine had been discovered in a house used by Noriega for voodoo rituals was retracted on Jan. 22 when it was admitted that the substance was in fact tamales , a central American foodstuff , wrapped in banana leaves . |