Example sentences of "how [det] [adj] [noun pl] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , how few Tory Members do there need to be in Scotland before it is accepted that the status quo is no longer tenable ? |
| 2 | How many paid holidays do you get a year and when are you likely to be able to take them . |
| 3 | How many small faces do I have to put glue on ? |
| 4 | How many standard sizes do Beaver offer and why is this important ? |
| 5 | How many blue cubes do you need to build a cube the same size as the red cube ? |
| 6 | c ) If B is pointing at 12 , how many right angles does it have to turn through in turning clockwise to point to 9 ? |
| 7 | The speciality of rule hath been neglected ; And look , how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain , so many hollow factions . |
| 8 | And how many different places do you think you worked at ? |
| 9 | But then , how many ex-air commanders did I really expect to be female ? |
| 10 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 11 | Er and put us out of our er how many ballistic shields did you take into that flat ? |
| 12 | How many red lights did you jump , going home ? ’ |
| 13 | An interesting sideline to Scottish litigation is how many English creditors do n't take their Scottish debtors to court . |
| 14 | ‘ How many more secrets do you have ? ’ she asked heavily . |
| 15 | How many more times do I have to tell you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , how many more times do I have to explain it ? ’ he roared . |
| 17 | ‘ How many more times do I have to tell you ? |
| 18 | ‘ My dear Juliet , how many more times do I have to tell you I 'm doing this because it interests me ? |
| 19 | I get embarrassed when I 'm putting out there because so many people keep asking me how long and how many more times do you have to keep saying we 're waiting for the lorry to turn up . |
| 20 | He was just marrying her out of ambition — how many more times did she have to remind herself of that ? |
| 21 | Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ? |
| 22 | How many marriageable girls does a man meet ? |
| 23 | ‘ How many fucking times do I have to tell you ? ’ snarled Scott . |
| 24 | How many orchestral recordings do you own of , say , a typical Romantic Symphony , where the orchestral playing is truly watertight of ensemble , where there 's not a single moment when any one player or section is audibly ‘ out of sync ’ with the main ensemble ? |
| 25 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |