Example sentences of "how many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dixon said , ‘ With up to 20 years from infection to illness , we just have to ask how many of our congregation have been added during that time ? |
| 2 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 3 | It would be worth knowing how many exhibition visitors obeyed these examination instructions . |
| 4 | When he asked Colm over the microphone how many goals he had scored the boy proudly replied ‘ Four ’ … |
| 5 | How many have thought that though ? |
| 6 | How many bad paintings , books , pieces of music we owe to this final , mysterious strength , he wrote . |
| 7 | How many banal and clumsy , weak and foolish artists have justified their work as that which saved them from despair . |
| 8 | JUST HOW MANY SKOLS DO YOU WANT ? |
| 9 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 10 | How many customers realise that the food cost of one portion of pasta with olive oil and sun-dried tomatoes is only about 25p ? |
| 11 | ‘ How many pairs of boots were there this morning ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you , Hawkins , my name 's Doctor Streeter , not Miss Streeter ; now come up here and wipe that filth off . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 15 | I 'd never seen what people drank before so that was interesting — nor did I realize quite how many of the youngsters smoked ! |
| 16 | It is alarming to hear how many relatively inexperienced pilots seem completely unaware of the risks they take when pitting their skills against the forces of nature . |
| 17 | HOW MANY SMOKE ALARMS DO YOU NEED ? |
| 18 | How many children will be I allowed to mind ? |
| 19 | The Environmental Health Officer will advise you of how many estimates you need to send with your application . |
| 20 | No one had thought to specify how many shirt buttons could be undone and fear was now patently manifest that some uncontrollable disorder would be let loose should more than one button be opened to reveal ‘ chest hair , or even a medallion ’ . |
| 21 | Furlong is correct , however , in suggesting that anxiety was rife , and because of this and establishment obsessions with a belief in a statistical truth we were constantly being asked to give numerical estimates of how many there were ‘ out there ’ who were ‘ fixing ’ , ‘ using the weed ’ , or ‘ dropping acid ’ . |
| 22 | It is surprising how many people take part in competition without knowing the rules , even at élite level . |
| 23 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 24 | ‘ How many ? ’ |
| 25 | How many guns ? |
| 26 | Remarkable , she thought , how many of these terms were familiar to quite young children . |
| 27 | Getting reliable figures to show how much alcohol misuse costs us , or how many people are affected , is n't easy . |
| 28 | They always have some excuse , but Russia has far worse facilities than we have and how many players have they got in the top fifty ; three men and three women ? |
| 29 | How many points might you hit before then ? ’ |
| 30 | How many points are played in the entire set ? |