Example sentences of "[num] were on [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen of the patients had been treated with zidovudine , and 17 were on the drug at the time of diagnosis ; two patients were taking dideoxyinosine . |
| 2 | Of the 165 cases in which damages were received without a court order , 104 were on the basis of the acceptance of the first offer that was made . |
| 3 | Sahnoun said in late July that as many as 5,000 people might be dying each day across the country , 1,500,000 were on the brink of death and 4,500,000 were nearing starvation ; together these figures represented almost the entire population of the country . |
| 4 | The Bangladesh government said on Feb. 24 that thousands were on the verge of starvation because relief efforts were inadequate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |