Example sentences of "in [num] there have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1885 there had been 402 members ; in 1903 there were 1,248 . |
| 2 | Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ? |
| 4 | In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years . |
| 5 | In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade . |
| 6 | In 1920 there had been six London evenings . |
| 7 | In 1960 there had been Tree . |
| 8 | In 1871 there were three Discourses having some connection with military topics , whereas in 1870 there had been one ; in 1872 there was one , and in 1873 none again . |
| 9 | Moreover , it was also draining the working class : in 1917 there had been three million workers employed in Russian industry , by the winter of 1920–1 the number had declined to 1,480,000 . |
| 10 | In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways . |
| 11 | Up to 2,500 births a year in Britain result from artificial insemination by donor ( Teper and Symonds 1985 ) and since the birth of the first ‘ test tube ’ baby in 1978 there have been several hundred such births in Britain alone ( see Edwards 1983 ) . |
| 12 | In 1912 there had been no such preparation , merely a demand for solidarity which seemed unlikely to succeed . |
| 13 | In 1840 there had been about 10 million Poles — by 1914 there were over 18 million . |
| 14 | In 1953 there had been 4,068 subject entries from secondary modern schools ; by 1966 there were 22,000 , the floodgates were open , and alternative public examinations were being developed nationally . |
| 15 | Since the first British Crime Survey ( BCS ) was conducted in 1982 there have been several local surveys ( among others Merseyside , Islington , Broadwater Farm and Hammersmith and Fulham ) concerned with the incidence of crime , fear of crime , attitudes to the police and |
| 16 | This was prompted by the costs of war-indeed , since the renewal of the conflict with France in 1369 there had been several major fiscal exactions , of which the three poll taxes were the last . |
| 17 | Already in 1669 there had been an effort to systematise the payment of salaries to English diplomats ; and a fixed scale based on formal diplomatic rank ( ambassador , envoy , minister or resident ) was adopted in 1690 and remained largely unchanged for the next hundred years . |
| 18 | Of the 9,123 adjudications in 1868 there had been 6,489 in which no dividend had been realized . |
| 19 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 20 | In 1837 there had been improvements to the dressing floors , and it was then considered likely that every two months about 400 tons of merchantable ore and concentrate would soon be a reality , though the low price of copper prevailing at that time was felt to be something of a drawback . |
| 21 | Since his appointment in 1983 there has been a remarkable turn around in the fortune of the Company as shown when this years £3.1 million profit after tax is compared to a £2 million loss five years ago . |
| 22 | In that year 135,000 houses were improved with the help of government grants : in 1955 there had been too little improvement to record in official statistics . |
| 23 | ( In 1990 there had been a total of 39,211 cases of cholera reported throughout Africa . ) |
| 24 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |