Example sentences of "and had [adv] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Its Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners ' Encyclopaedia Of Gardening cost £2.5 million to create and had over 100 editors working on it .
2 The car was , after all , three years old and had over 50,000 miles on the clock .
3 The ‘ establishment ’ was fully represented in the Society , which was engaged with problems seen as crucial in late Victorian Britain , and had over 600 members .
4 In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise .
5 The only street fell steeply down towards the secondary gateway to the Manor and had about fifteen cottages on the east side of the road .
6 The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well .
7 That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ .
8 When he was second to Big Ben , he was two seconds faster and had only one fence down .
9 Notwithstanding these advantages and the expenditure of close to $13m mainly on television advertising , Connally won no primaries and had only one delegate committed to him at the convention .
10 I was trying to get Mutt to finish up because we were all leaving and had only four or five hours to finish the demo .
11 This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 .
12 The training lasted four years , and had only two terms of formal instruction in college - the first and the last .
13 The rest of the room was sparsely decorated and had only two wooden-backed chairs and a small steel-legged table .
14 Guzmán 's lawyer Alfredo Crespo , president of the Association of Democratic Lawyers ( AAD ) , described the 10-day trial as a " complete farce " since he was not able to call defence witnesses and had only two 10-minute meetings with his client .
15 We were due on a Viennese trolley car — or tram — and had only 15 minutes to shower and get ready .
16 But they recovered well , and had almost five overs to spare when the winning runs were hit .
17 We could cater for 190 youngsters and had almost 300 applicants .
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