Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 2 | From one in Khorramshahr , 800 refugees have gone to a better , cooler site near Dezful , 200 km ( 120 miles ) north . |
| 3 | A Swedish Red Cross official , whose team is building a field hospital for refugees near Khorramshahr , reckoned that 30,000–40,000 Iraqis had passed through the town since early March . |
| 4 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |
| 5 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
| 6 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 7 | More than 700 students have qualified from the three-year course , which was renamed in 1983 . |
| 8 | The word on the streets of Galway last week was that hardware manufacturing with its 800 jobs had gone by the wayside . |
| 9 | By Jan. 19 it was announced that six groups had agreed to the formula , but the proposal received strong opposition from the Pakistan-based Hezb-e Islami , led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . |
| 10 | New cases of BSE in the UK " where 88,000 animals have died of the disease so far " rose from 675 to 885 a week over the past year , although the government 's chief scientist insists the figure will start to decline by the end of this year . |
| 11 | It was reported in late December that some 142,000 Jews had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel during 1991 , compared with the 400,000 expected by the government at the start of the year and the 185,000 who had emigrated in 1990 . |
| 12 | However , some six months had elapsed between the presentation of the report and his departure : time enough to have acted . |
| 13 | The number unemployed for more than six months has doubled in the past year . |
| 14 | Throughout the 1970s the share of employment , value added and output taken by firms with less than 100 workers has grown in an unexpectedly resilient fashion . |
| 15 | As to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , 568 people in Milton Keynes and Basildon applied to buy their home under the scheme ; and 100 applicants have switched to the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 16 | More than 300,000 Hindus had converged on the town last week to destroy the temple . |
| 17 | Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee . |
| 18 | Yesterday , while watching the thrilling final of the Midland Bank Championships at Brighton , I was very interested to hear Barry Davis ' comment on the fact that not one of the world 's top 10 players had participated in the event with the notable exception of one Steffi Graf . |
| 19 | To date almost 100 graduates have participated in the GEP and the majority have gone on to successfully launch their own businesses . |
| 20 | But in the past 2.5 years over 30,000 jobs have gone from the defence industry . |
| 21 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 22 | On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week . |
| 23 | Linfield 's board , alarmed by the adverse publicity , released an unprecedented statement outlining their position and policy , and revealing that over 70 Catholics had played for the club in the past . |
| 24 | If three giants had come through the door there would have been no choice but to retreat . |
| 25 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 26 | Three hours had passed by the measure of men and in Sichuan Province , in the great palace at Tongjiang , Li Shai Tung sat with his son in the dim-lit silence of his study , reading through the report General Nocenzi had brought . |
| 27 | All three states have acceded to the CSCE . |
| 28 | So you wish a dozen anti-Fascists had gone to the hospital , do you ? ’ |
| 29 | Kate Young found that three classes had developed on the basis of wealth , land ownership and relation to the means of production . |
| 30 | Three years had passed since the time of her conception and she was still without spars and rigging and had not been fitted out internally . |