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A final observation made by Fox and Thompson was the overwhelming tendency for head nouns modified by two relative clauses to have the preferred relative clause type occur first and the less typical relative clause pattern to occur second. (Recall the preferred patterns: inanimate subject head nouns prefer relativized objects; inanimate object head nouns prefer relativized subjects; existential human head nouns following there subjects prefer relativized subjects )
One thing they said in the article that was really interesting was that in the U.S. there are over a hundred thousand people who are over a hundred years old.