Example sentences of "how many [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many teams have there been in the leagues anyone has played in ? |
| 2 | Insofar as it provides information on their situation one year ago , the LFS enables us to see how many persons enter employment via temporary jobs . |
| 3 | How many sounds does a cat make ? |
| 4 | And how many slaves did he sell in Spanish Town ? ’ |
| 5 | The results of the second ballot will be binding , regardless of how many parents vote in it . ) |
| 6 | The second ballot will take place over the next fortnight , and the result will stand no matter how many parents vote . |
| 7 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 8 | Well I ca n't place very many , all I 've placed are the ones in the middle that I used to live in I could probably place Zambia , Malawi Zimbabwe whatever the Conga is now called , I do n't even know what that 's now called that 's about my limit , Ghana Nigeria , might be able to place if it 's geographical features I could place more how many countries have you given then in Africa ? |
| 9 | There are choices now to be made , how many layers to add , or whether literally to skin the canvas . |
| 10 | There are choices now to be made , how many layers to add , or whether literally to skin the canvas . |
| 11 | How many doctors does Britain need by 2010 ? |
| 12 | How many doctors does Britain need ? |
| 13 | Editor , — Stephen Brearley asks the question ‘ How many doctors does Britain need by 2010 ? ’ |
| 14 | I found that interesting because it appears that the Minister does not know how many doctors made a claim that was above the amount of the reimbursement schedule or , if he did know , he was unwilling to tell me , so I must presume that he did not know . |
| 15 | A large , excellent doctors ' practice proceeded — how many doctors did the same ? — and made a claim for the reimbursement that they expected . |
| 16 | Exactly how many quangos exist is not known . |
| 17 | How many apples have I ? |
| 18 | How many apples d' you reckon he ate ? ’ |
| 19 | However , to take an example at random , how many times does the hon. Gentleman think that the Bundestag discussed the Maastricht agreement before it was signed ? |
| 20 | Rod Wallace needs to work on his finishing , how many times does he miss when he 's clean through ? |
| 21 | You say to yourself how many times does three go into twenty seven , nine . |
| 22 | Yeah , so how many times does three go into eighteen ? |
| 23 | how many times does four go into twelve . |
| 24 | How many times does anybody see them ? |
| 25 | how many times does the moon go round the earth whilst the earth is going round the sun ? |
| 26 | How many times had she watched him do that ? |
| 27 | And how many times had she thought how easy it would be to poison him ? |
| 28 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 29 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 30 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |