Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [verb] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Havana , 37,000 Cuban forces had left Angola by September 1990 , leaving just 13,000 due to depart by mid-1991 . |
| 2 | His blue eyes were bright and clear and the frequent pump of adrenaline through his veins as he tracked and shot for fourteen successive days had left his senses sharpened , on a high edge of alertness . |
| 3 | Twenty-five thousand men had left the industry in the past two years . |
| 4 | Once the remaining 50,000-70,000 Vietnamese troops have left Kampuchea , Vietnam will have a chance of winning investment and economic aid from America and its friends , including Thailand and other members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 5 | More than 10,000 Soviet troops had left Hungary since the start of a partial withdrawal in April 1989 [ see p. 36595 ] , and according to a Soviet announcement on Dec. 28 the withdrawal of another 8,000 troops was envisaged for 1990 , but this would still leave a Soviet presence estimated at between 37,000 and 44,000 troops . |
| 6 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 7 | The April 1990 general election had left the ND dependent for its single-seat majority on the support of the sole DIANA deputy Theodoros Katsikis [ incorrectly named as Kostis Stefanopoulos on p. 37388 ] who in July joined the ND . |