Example sentences of "[num] were in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of 331 letters sent by Philippa of Hainault between 1330 and 1336 , 203 were in Latin and 128 in French .
2 87% of deaths from VSA in 1991 were in males , and again this percentage did not differ from the overall figure since 1971 .
3 Of the 36,905 RMT members who voted , 18,544 were in favour of BR 's offer and 18,361 against .
4 It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . '
5 The controls signalled a dozen dealing screens , but only three were in use .
6 This is not to say that there are not important distinctions between , say , the large cities , or between declining industrial areas ; individual localities may all show different social relationships ( Cooke , 1989 ) ; it may be that similarities of trends in the 1960s and 1970s were in part coincidental , and that there will be salient differences in the 1990s .
7 ( The US administration estimated that the vast majority of the Soviet Union 's 27,000 nuclear warheads were deployed in Russia but that several thousand were in Byelorussia , Ukraine , and Kazakhstan . )
8 The fears of those who had stayed away in 1964 were in danger of being realised in 1988 .
9 By June 1989 the number of households in temporary accommodation had increased to 33,750- the highest figure ever recorded : some 14,800 were in short-life dwellings ( including properties leased from private landlords ) , 11,720 were in bed and breakfast accommodation and 7,230 were in hostels and women 's refuges .
10 Of those sites where operations would close 95 were in West Germany , 11 in Spain , nine in South Korea , three each in Italy , Greece , Australia and the United Kingdom , and one in Japan .
11 By the end of 1990 the total number of Vietnamese boat people in neighbouring countries had reached 110,000 , of whom 52,000 were in Hong Kong , 20,300 in Indonesia , 14,900 in Malaysia and 14,100 in Thailand .
12 When , or if , the four leagues of ten were in place , one club would be automatically relegated from the Premier Division , with one coming up from the league beneath .
13 Supporters of the change were fortified by the knowledge , revealed by the Home Secretary in his speech , that of the thirty five judges in the Queen 's Bench Division ( including the Lord Chief Justice who conducted the poll ) , twenty-five were in favour of majority verdicts , provided that the majority did not fall below ten to two .
14 Further renewals of the Cassell Trustees grant in 1924 , 1927 and 1930 were in recognition of the successful work of Sophie Green , and the influence of Helen Stocks with leading figures of the WEA as well as her indefatigable energy in raising monies among her friends to support the scheme .
15 In 1983 , 68 per cent of non-married women aged 16–59 were in employment , and 61 per cent of married women ( OPCS , 1984 ) .
16 The largest category of legislative Acts is by far that of regulations , of which some 6,471 were in force at 1 January 1992 .
17 Of those Whigs who were elected to serve in the new Parliament of 1690 , by April 1691 , according to Harley , about 125 were in opposition , and some 85 supported the Court .
18 In Ipswich the situation was more complex : as can be seen from Table 3.2 , as many as half the clients referred to the project actually received no service ; 19 of the 27 were in hospital at referral , usually having been admitted to the psychiatric hospital following their referral and domiciliary visit by the psychogeriatrician .
19 Of 30 new branches opened , 16 were in mainland Europe .
20 The house had then to be fumigated , and Ann and 1 were in quarantine for six weeks .
21 Fifteen were in metalworking ; most of them were well paid and skilled , as tinsmiths etc .
22 When all five were in place she raised her arm , and smiled , admiring them .
23 We asked leading figures in the art world whether the Tate should divide into the British Collections and a museum of international modern art : all but one were in favour
24 Of the 15,547 students enrolled on CNAA courses three-quarters were in science and technology .
25 In the early 1980s , this view was attacked by Peter White in a controversial article which questioned whether the Elizabethan church was ever fully predestinarian , and went on to claim that the apparently religious conflicts within England in the late 1620s were in fact primarily caused by the pressures of international power politics rather than by theological differences .
26 All my cash was accounted for and Jo 's ten crispy twenties were in place .
27 By the end of 1978 nine were in production and several more on course for development .
28 However , the Polisario officials estimated that the Saharan population had swelled to 207,000 by 1987 , of whom nearly two-thirds were in refugee camps in Algeria .
29 Even rarer treasures , such as a pair of early A- and B-model Mustangs , a Commonwealth Boomerang , Hawker Tempest II and a SPAD VII were in Weeks ' storage and restoration facility at Tamiami , which was also destroyed .
30 They mounted immediate attacks on European colonies by sea and by land from Indo-China and by mid-1942 were in control of much of Southeast Asia , including the Philippines , Malaya , Singapore and the Dutch East Indies .
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