Example sentences of "many there be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows how many there are in there . |
| 2 | The rules of the infirmary permitted the honorary medical staff ( and later the house-surgeon ) to take on such pupils , but how many there were at any one time and whether they were resident or not was seldom recorded . |
| 3 | Many there were for executing this weak nephew of their late King there and then ; but Moray , who was his kinsman , pleaded for his life with the Regent , and promised to stand surety for his better behaviour in the future . |
| 4 | Luckily I knew how many there were of them ( 53 if I remember correctly ) so I could count them out again — something which involved a lot of shaking of the shell into a bucket of tank water . |
| 5 | When I asked how many there were in her family she said seven , but that the young ones were at home , and did not mention her pregnant abdomen . |