Example sentences of "a [num] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You know when I asked , was gon na have er on Lynn Road there what was that fifty a fifty a week ?
2 But I mean I I would n't even mind earning two hundred a fifty a week .
3 Richards also had the benefit of solid support at the other end as Haynes steadily made his way to 184 , the highest West Indian innings at Lord 's , and with Lloyd chipping in a fifty the total reached 518 .
4 If you have a 2.25 the cost of a new 2.5 head is not economically viable , so the alternative is to have the head machined to take the 2.5 inserts ( ETC 6278 ) at £6.58 each plus VAT and probably £50 to £75 to have the head reconditioned at the same time .
5 Every time there was a call , although 99 times out of a 100 the call was for him , he pushed the phone in my direction .
6 I decided to do half a dozen a day until I 'd got through them .
7 All the same , he now sees 136 visitors each Saturday , against about a dozen a year ago .
8 Takes a dozen a year off me if I can find them for him .
9 Now in the absence of Dr and anybody else , yesterday , er myself , Ian , Nick er and one of the lab girls got together , we trialled all sorts of different er ways and means of getting round the high conductivity that was occurring er vis a vis a multi-purpose mix .
10 With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning .
11 The screens , which could be available in small quantities in July building to a thousand a month in the fall , may become OEM products .
12 Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well .
13 I was reading in the paper this morning , a chap , he 's a director of a big company in Birmingham , who was the world 's number one football fan , he used to spend about a thousand a year watching football , you know .
14 The owner , wisely not trusting London tap water for his greenhouse , had installed a network of guttering to catch rainwater in a pair of large aluminium beer barrels ( worth over a hundred quid to the brewery and a thousand a ton to the illegal smelting operations over in Barking ) .
15 Why I 'm yes that that might be a bit more complicated because that means we 've got to get a thousand a thousand reject up to a thousand reject ball bearings which are all the same .
16 Maxwell 's son loses a thousand a minute on roulette !
17 I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure .
18 Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future .
19 It is growing at a rate of around a billion every 12 years .
20 The lawns were as smooth and white as yesterday , and the meadow as white , and a 1 the fields away to the marshes on the faraway horizon .
21 The dots represent the original data ; the smooth line represents a function of the form ( where x is eccentricity ; a 1 -a 3 , l 1 -l 3 are constants ) fitted to the data using a least-squares method .
22 On top of those attractions will be a five a side motaball contest , with players ‘ driving ’ small single seater vehicles to ‘ kick ’ a giant ball .
23 Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest …
24 To keep existing contracts on schedule while meeting emergency requirements from the ministry , the site has moved from a five-to a seven-day week , and working hours since early November have more or less doubled .
25 The man who has a heart like Khidar , who quaffed the water of life of love , to such a one the most limpid fountains are nothing worth .
26 I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing .
27 But er just a one the exceptional cases .
28 David Tait had arrived in New York in March , with the instructions to ‘ set up an airline ; we 'll be sending you a 747 a day in three months time ’ .
29 This should beat a recent ban on the plastic variety — half a million a month used to litter the seas and endanger dolphins , whales and turtles .
30 Though Pitt was always sceptical about the likelihood of an invasion he clearly thought the extra half a million a year it cost to keep the militia under arms was money well spent .
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