Example sentences of "[num] it had a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] .
2 In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible .
3 By 1658 it had a dye house , a gig mill and two fulling stocks .
4 In 1988 it had a trade deficit of 695,000,000 roubles representing 6.6 per cent of total crossborder trade .
5 In 1988 it had a trade deficit totalling some 1,500 million roubles representing 11.4 per cent of total crossborder trade .
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