Example sentences of "some [num] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State of Emergency Governor for the south-eastern region , Unal Erkan , told other regional governors meeting in Batman on June 17 that in the last 40 days 60 soldiers and some 180 civilians had been killed in clashes . |
| 2 | By June 1990 , as the result of a campaign launched in May 1989 , a total of some 550 agreements had been reached in the engineerng industry for a phased reduction of the basic working week , generally from 39 to 37 hours . |
| 3 | Amnesty International claimed on Nov. 1 that some 800 Yemenis had been detained , tortured and ill-treated by Saudi troops since August " for no apparent reason other than their nationality , or their suspected opposition to the Saudi Arabian government 's position on the Gulf crisis " . |
| 4 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 5 | Fighting was more protracted in Croatia , where some 300 people had been killed by mid-August . |
| 6 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 7 | Up to 1,500,000 people were estimated to have voted , although congestion at the polling stations meant that some 30,000 voters had been unable to vote when the polling stations closed at midnight . |
| 8 | This was achieved using venture capital and so successful was the product that by 1978/79 some 135,000 machines had been sold . |
| 9 | A further two camps were later set up further south , in the Tamanrasset region , and on March 22 , detainees ' families heard that some 600 prisoners had been transferred there . |
| 10 | Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators , which precipitated the November revolution . |
| 11 | Rawlinson continued to throw in his troops and by midday some 100,000 men had been engulfed in the carnage . |
| 12 | Some 17 people had been killed in the fighting . |
| 13 | Croatian Foreign Minister Zvonimir Separovic said in a letter to EC foreign ministers on Oct. 27 that some 5,000 people had been killed in Croatia since the beginning of July . |
| 14 | On Feb. 20 the government reported that some 5,000 people had been detained and transported by air to the first two of five detention camps being set up in the Sahara region of southern Algeria . |
| 15 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 16 | Some 10,000 troops had been flown into Caracas in response to the unrest , and official casualty figures put the number of people killed at 256 , including two soldiers and a police officer , and the number injured at 1,831 , with deaths and injuries mostly caused by gunfire . |
| 17 | The treatment was investigated in a co-operative study involving many surgeons : by 1950 some 1800 cases had been reported , leaving little doubt that treatment had been found which at least delayed the progress of an otherwise intractable cancer . |
| 18 | The release of Mandela on feb. 11 [ see pp. 37232-33 ] also appeared to have provoked new levels of violence , particularly in faction fighting in Natal townships ; by late March some 250 people had been killed since his release , mostly in Natal and the homelands . |
| 19 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 20 | Some 2,150 replies had been received from the prelates and Catholic institutions consulted . |
| 21 | ( An earlier US plan to use US$1,000 million to subsidise the export of 29,100,000 tonnes of wheat to some 28 countries had been denounced on Oct. 5 by the EC Commission President Jacques Delors as " an aggressive act " . ) |
| 22 | Some 450 jobs had been saved and the potential for more jobs at Gatwick sustained . |
| 23 | Just before the men were charged , Le Monde published a confidential document prepared for the government in 1989 showing that some 360,000 people had been infected with blood contaminated by hepatitis because of inadequate testing of blood donors between 1980 and 1988 , when compulsory tests were introduced . |
| 24 | Reports from rebel-held territory that some 1,000 civilians had been killed by government troops were strongly denied ; however the number of dead in fighting was thought to have reached several hundred . |