Example sentences of "many [noun] there were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More significantly , in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood . |
| 2 | Somebody did n't even know how many months there were in the year ! |
| 3 | The highest success rates obtained ( 90–100 per cent ) were for answering simple questions about a calendar : on which days of the week were given dates and how many days there were in a given month . |
| 4 | In many places there were at least elements of spontaneity and although Duiker compares it with Trotsky 's description of the Bolshevik revolution as , for the most part , being a ‘ revolution by telegraph ’ , Khanh says that most places acted without instructions from the Central Committee . |
| 5 | Yesterday we asked you how many varieties there were of Plumrose Delifresh Slicing Rolls ? |
| 6 | It is impossible to say , even for the relatively well-documented western part of the Carolingian Empire , how many counts there were at any one time , let alone identify the personnel . |
| 7 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I looked round to see how many bodies there were on the floor . |
| 9 | Cartoonists draw pictures and make jokes about who had to clean up the mess below decks , or how many rabbits there were on board when the flood went down . |
| 10 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 11 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |
| 12 | For one thing , although I was ready for the challenge of the theories of life and death in Re:Joyce , it had n't occurred to me how many references there were to fathers , including a beautiful sequence in the sketch ‘ First Flight ’ . |