Example sentences of "we have [adv] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if the athletics department might explain why we had n't a 1500 metres runner in the final for the first time since 1960 ? |
| 2 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 3 | We had close to four hundred thousand Palestinians , we had almost a hundred and eighty thousand Indians , ninety thousand erm from Bangladesh , about eighty thousand Phillipinos and we had about also seventy five thousand Pakistanis and erm many other erm nationalities . |
| 4 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 5 | We have over a thousand of them in the country . ’ |
| 6 | We have over a million shooters and hunt supporters who used their vote . |
| 7 | The fossil history.of earth suggests that we have about a billion years — one ‘ aeon ’ , to use a convenient modern definition — to play with , for this is roughly the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and the era of the first fossil organisms . |
| 8 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |