Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of women who separated between 1970 and 1974 before the age of 35 , nearly one-quarter had remarried within three years , while just over half had remarried within six years .
2 Among those divorcing between 1977 and 1980 , 52% of women and 67% of men had remarried within 6 years of divorce .
3 The 1988 General Household Survey found that 29% of women and 36% of men divorced during the period 1981–84 had remarried within 2 years of divorce .
4 Of women who separated between 1970 and 1974 before the age of 35 , nearly one-quarter had remarried within three years , while just over half had remarried within six years .
5 He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one .
6 Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 .
7 The UEFA control and disciplinary committee said Dinamo had arranged for 5,000 dollars to be paid to the referee , linesmen and fourth official before the home game on August 18 .
8 She would continue to define her ex-husband as diminishingly efficient , and he would go on seeing himself as an ill-equipped buffoon who had stumbled into six years of brazen luck .
9 With the income from the three films he had completed in eighteen months , he had stretched himself to buy a house in Beverly Hills .
10 Innes Westmacott had flown with 56 Squadron during the Battle of Britain .
11 We had flown for thirty hours in the fortnight .
12 On Aug. 24 a 45-truck WFP convoy arrived in Gelib , southern Somalia , carrying 450 tonnes of food and by Sept. 2 the WFP had flown in four planeloads of food aid to Bardera .
13 Norton et al found that 25%-35% of women had delayed for five years or more before seeking medical advice .
14 The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May .
15 This band was expanded by the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 to extend from 88 to 108 MHz — previously it had stopped at 100 MHz .
16 We combined current users and those who had stopped within 12 months for analysis in case some women had been directed to stop the pill before elective surgery .
17 Some liquid bowel movements are expected after many types of intestinal perfusion studies and in most of the subjects in this study liquid bowel movements had stopped after 24 hours .
18 He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other .
19 One hundred millilitre samples of simulated gastric juice ( USP formulation ) were then added to the test meal , the mixture was stirred thoroughly , and the resultant pH measured when it had stabilised after 10 minutes .
20 Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques .
21 After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in .
22 The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new .
23 One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year .
24 By January this year the ratio had fallen to 17.2 pupils per teacher .
25 At follow up in 1989 group means derived from the last three readings available for all hypertensives had fallen to 148/88 mm Hg for men and 145/86 mm Hg for women ( all changes p<0.001 ) .
26 The county of Powys ( almost all LFA ) had 240,600 hectares of rough grazing in 1955 which by 1982 had fallen to 179,052 hectares , much of it improved agriculturally .
27 The overall food stocks for the SADCC region had fallen to 333,500 tonnes of maize equivalent in November , from 638,000 tonnes in September , and total food import requirements amounted to 2,350,000 tonnes .
28 There , Stirling heard by radio that Tripoli had fallen on 23 January , and thus Jordan 's mission was vital .
29 Company profits had fallen by 40 pc this year .
30 By May 12 the Bombay stock exchange index had fallen by 1,047 points or almost 24 per cent of the market 's capitalization since the scandal first emerged at the end of April .
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