Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People will slowly discover they can put down a five per cent deposit on a house without losing it in six months , ’ he said . |
| 2 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 3 | I took it into to make it bigger , right , it was mum 's , so they said well we 've got to put valuation on it to send it away , so I said well I have n't got a clue , so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world . |
| 4 | Handing down a twelve month sentence , and ordering him to pay twenty thousand pounds costs , Judge Charles told , his downfall and subsequent exposure was a punishment in itself . |
| 5 | If you wish you can use your accommodation for changing as the uncrowded beach is only five minutes walk through our car park , across the road and down a 100 yard footpath . |
| 6 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
| 7 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 8 | So I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out an eighty-thousand mortgage . ’ |
| 9 | When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second . |
| 10 | You 're not serious that they 're going to go to nothing could always go down a hundred . |
| 11 | Oh , it was a disaster , he was er my estimation of him went down a hundred percent because she smoked |
| 12 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 13 | and knocked down a hundred and fourteen properties |
| 14 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
| 15 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 16 | So write down A three A. |
| 17 | In other abortion-related developments during April , the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 1990 anti-abortion law which had been passed in the US territory of Guam[seep. 37310 ] . |
| 18 | The data transmission path of this system has proved tortuously slow , having to pass through three programs each way and down a 1200 Baud communication line ; however , it does prove the principle . |
| 19 | Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules , the die flipped onto a point , spun gently and came down a seven . |
| 20 | The government has laid down a 20 per cent limit to stakes . |
| 21 | Anyone considering buying a new Metro 1.0L , Montego 1.6L or Rover 820 Fastback can obtain interest-free loans over two years from AA Financial Services , provided you are prepared to put down a 25 per cent deposit on the car . |
| 22 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
| 23 | And did you hear the one about the rabbi caught out , on the most solemn fast-day of the year , slurping down a dozen oysters . |
| 24 | Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers , it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof . |
| 25 | The festival is good for the economy , bringing in a million pounds to the area . |
| 26 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 27 | I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob . |
| 28 | All right I 'll bring in a sixty minute tape ask him tonight , okay and I 'll bring in a sixty and a ninety minute , okay . |
| 29 | All right I 'll bring in a sixty minute tape ask him tonight , okay and I 'll bring in a sixty and a ninety minute , okay . |
| 30 | Absolutely , you see the sad thing is that Simon has a seven point five five average erm we sort of balance that out , you know , erm Simon to go and bring in a six point National League boy — it 's not a clever situation at all in my book , but then the rules are the rules and we have to go along with it . |