Example sentences of "have [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The famed Cucumber Bookshop in Rockville , Maryland which has hundreds of technical titles in stock has launched an international mail-order company , the only one to specialise in Unix and C including C++ and the object-oriented .
2 Britain already has one of western Europe 's lowest ratios of intensive care unit beds to hospital beds .
3 Portugal has one of Western Europe 's worst road accident rates .
4 It is n't often that a new cruising ground opens to yachtsmen , particularly one that has hundred of deserted anchorages , summer water temperatures comparable to the Med , and which is the same sailing distance from Britain as Gibraltar .
5 Yorkshire has dozens of other villages with similar problems from primitive , overloaded sewage systems .
6 It ended in May 1915 , during one of the most politically testing weeks in Asquith 's premiership , with the lady 's retreat into a curious marriage to Edwin Montagu , a lesser member of the government and a very close friend — indeed acolyte — of the prime minister , and it is about Montagu that this book has most of new interest to say .
7 Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't .
8 They still play honest hard rock , but now it sounds fresher and has thousands of hard edges .
9 Since the first of September till the twenty-sixth of September , we 've had thirteen bikes go all over Banbury , and since the twenty-sixth of September it seems to have increased and we 've had eight of various sorts go , er ranging from a hundred to a hundred and ninety pounds .
10 If the figures are for real GNP per head then West Germany would fare better , because of its slow growing ( and latterly falling ) population , than America which has had millions of new immigrants .
11 They 've had enough of black guys who 're not prepared to listen .
12 We 've had enough of fair-haired people here to last us a lifetime !
13 Herbert , deciding that he had had enough of provincial life , set up in partnership again with brother James .
14 By 1794 he seems to have had enough of undisciplined emotion and of the actions of Robespierre , Rousseau 's fervent disciple ; and therefore rushed to embrace a new philosophy of reason and nonviolence .
15 But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse .
16 This person 's had enough of useless memories .
17 SyQuest Technology Inc , Fremont , California has had enough of French start-up Nomai SA and has started legal proceedings in Paris to stop the sale of what it claims are illegal copies of SyQuest removable Winchester disk cartridges and to obtain other legal relief : the complaint was filed before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ; it already has an injunction against the company in the US , but Nomai has continued to ship its cartridges outside the US , which SyQuest believes is in violation of both the original temporary restraining and subsequent stipulated order .
18 good gobble If you 've had enough of lime-topped lager , why not try turkey-flavoured crisps ?
19 Larger colonies would have hundreds of individual zooids .
20 This summer the centre will have many of corporate customers , high flyers out for a trial lesson with their colleagues .
21 The Americans would have thousands of surplus transport aircraft that could be turned to civil use , and a well-developed transport aircraft industry ; the British , on the other hand , would have virtually none .
22 Even at the end of that process , they will have thousands of nuclear weapons .
23 The Queen was to have one-tenth of native gold and silver , and one-tenth of gold and silver ore " holding 8 lb. weight in the hundred weight . "
24 When you 've hundreds of good stuff you feel good , do n't you ?
25 I had one of J- uhum , oh I ca n't remember his name , another play .
26 Two new books , Quotable Sex and Quotable Women by Carole McKenzie ( Mainstream , £7.99 ) , both have hundreds of incisive comments from the quick brains of the famous and little-known : ‘ Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage , and half-shut afterwards ’ — Madeleine de Scudery ( 1607–1701 ) French author .
27 In Greece , the Ionian Cruises have hundreds of sheltered anchorages to make sailing safe for the less experienced ; there 's always somewhere easy to reach .
28 The surrounding hills , compass and map country , have dozens of marvellous trout lochs , most of which are full of sparkling little fish ; and a few which hold much heavier specimens .
29 There must be many middle aged climbers such as myself who have dozens of spare ascents of Ben Nevis they would be willing to swop for some of the odd hills difficult of access .
30 So have dozens of other climbers who adopt our community 's traditional response to an inadequately justified prohibition .
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