Example sentences of "[num] [noun] were on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 2 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 3 | Eliot and Sgt. Bamberger of 261 Squadron were on a night readiness and were both ordered off . |
| 4 | Of the total , 174 incidents were on the zero point of the international seven-point scale , 28 incidents were one-point and three were two-point . |
| 5 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 6 | A massive operation was launched by emergency services and 100 firemen were on the site . |
| 7 | Half a dozen sailors were on the side deck . |
| 8 | Similar courses were provided for Hoffman Manufacturing Company , Chelmsford , from spring 1957 and for English Electric at Stevenage from autumn 1958 ; by the end of 1961 no less than eight firms were on the list , among them De Havilland , Imperial Chemical Industries and International Computers and Tabulators . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , an engine and five coaches were on the bridge at the time and the ninety passengers were drowned . |
| 10 | Five patients were on a diet devoid of gliadin and they were hence eliminated from the analysis . |
| 11 | And er of course on the coun town council I was also er on the county council because the proportional representation of the area Galashiels held the whole , fifteen councillors were on the county council . |
| 12 | Of those troops not in the Kuwaiti theatre , eight or nine divisions were on the border with Turkey , seven were on the frontier with Iran and five or six were based in Baghdad . |
| 13 | Last month nearly two point seven million people were on the dole . |
| 14 | At the table beyond , two blowsy women and four men were on a works outing from the Midlands . |
| 15 | Four men were on the run last night after smashing their way with a sledgehammer into Harper 's jeweller 's shop in Montpelier Parade , Harrogate . |
| 16 | The story is that four kings were on a journey to their coronation when , on the way , they wanted to stay at a hotel . |
| 17 | The two boys were on the slope above the perpendicular cliff opposite . |
| 18 | The two women were on an inspection tour of the Rose Hilaire empire : Baker Street , Bond Street , Knightsbridge and Sloane Street . |
| 19 | Two sailors were on the foredeck manning the cannon . |