Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technology company AWA had sued DRT ( then Deloitte Haskins & Sells ) , claiming that its negligence during two 1986 audits had contributed to foreign exchange losses . |
| 2 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 3 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 4 | From one in Khorramshahr , 800 refugees have gone to a better , cooler site near Dezful , 200 km ( 120 miles ) north . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The number of manufacturing plants with more than 30 workers had risen by two-thirds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A leading Soviet demographer estimated that altogether 9,400,000 peasants had died during Stalin 's collectivization programme in the early 1930s . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Only 2 points have come from their last 4 league games , but they want revenge for last season 's 5-3 defeat at the Manor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 13 | More than 700 students have qualified from the three-year course , which was renamed in 1983 . |
| 14 | In the small business area , the company is passing customers on to resellers — it now has a network of 29 independent businesses that exclusively sell its hardware and products , and some 300 employees have transferred to these German partners . |
| 15 | He said 50,000 jobs had gone since April 's election . |
| 16 | The word on the streets of Galway last week was that hardware manufacturing with its 800 jobs had gone by the wayside . |
| 17 | By late August about 225,000 refugees had crossed into Jordan , forcing the government to turn to international aid agencies for help . |
| 18 | In May 1989 the Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that 171 prisoners had died from torture in police custody between 1980 and 1986 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , some six months had elapsed between the presentation of the report and his departure : time enough to have acted . |
| 24 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 25 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 26 | The number unemployed for more than six months has doubled in the past year . |
| 27 | Final figures were that a total of 5,712 candidates had stood for election , of whom 1,021 were independents and the remainder represented one of the 59 different parties . |
| 28 | The report said that 8,500 Indians had left in 1989 . |
| 29 | Indeed , the northern hemisphere mean temperature decrease which began in the 1940s was arrested and reversed during the mid 1970s ( figure 6.15 ) and the seven warmest years in the past 100 years have occurred since 1980 ( 1980 , 1981 , 1983 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |