Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [num] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging from the value of each ransom payment , usually about five rupees , some stealing networks must have earned thousands of rupees profit annually . |
| 2 | SAILING around the coast of England searching for shoals of fish , Gerorge Trowark , a Cornish fisherman born in 1877 , must have visited dozens of ports and harbours . |
| 3 | He must have embezzled thousands of pounds over the years . ’ |
| 4 | But I must have met thousands of mothers in my career . |
| 5 | The pipebridge section alone held five tons of hot water when it was full and in all we must have pumped hundreds of tons around the system . |
| 6 | But we had it at the N E C for a week and it must have produced hundreds of cages on a routine daily basis . |
| 7 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 8 | For example , she considered Yardley 's Foundation Cream highly desirable , and would purchase it at every shop where it was to be found , with the consequence that she must have had dozens of pots stored , all drying up , in the limited accommodation provided in her billet . |
| 9 | When I think of the hours and hours spent rewinding wool during my machine knitting life — why , I could have knitted dozens of garments . |
| 10 | I mean that thing I went to on Wednesday it must have cost thousands of pounds . |
| 11 | I must have delivered hundreds of lectures , pep-talks , addresses , speeches , and organized many others . |
| 12 | But she must have delivered hundreds of babies . |
| 13 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , a National Audit Office report is thought to have concluded . |
| 14 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , according to a National Audit Office report . |
| 15 | Unless we do , in the short space of one human lifetime , we will have undone millions of years of evolution . |