Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void . |
| 2 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 3 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 4 | The world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour , silent and fiery , so that they themselves seemed to become beings other than themselves , inhabitants of another planet , out of time . |
| 5 | Midnight and a silvered road of dreams , a black field shot with a million bursts of white — the name is glow-worm , the sight is magic . |
| 6 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 7 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 8 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 9 | In many ways An Area of Darkness pre-empts Naipaul 's later work , India : A Wounded Civilization — about the devastation wrought by a thousand years of foreign rule . |
| 10 | In the 1930s accommodation consisted of a thousand beds in twelve hotels . |
| 11 | Ermine negligées ; bath in milk , numerous underpanties , chemises and other intimate items , all of which look like a million dollars on the svelte Ralston figure , just round enough . ’ |
| 12 | The dresser was crammed with a thousand things beside plates , old envelopes and letters , mousetraps , rags , pipes and screws of black tobacco in papers , and every chair was heaped with clothing , shirts and coats and cloaks . |
| 13 | Armed with a dozen rolls of film , I put six cameras to the test in the rain-lashed hills of Snowdonia . |
| 14 | And he paid over a thousand pounds for it . |
| 15 | Text and graphics produced on a 300 dots per inch page printer is visibly not such good quality as that produced by a typesetting system . |
| 16 | You can imagine , it sounds like a million owls in that cave . |
| 17 | In August 1828 , after a small exchange of fire , Monteiro landed with a thousand troops under Colonel José António de Azevedo Lemos . |
| 18 | This leaves the Commission wondering what to do with a million tonnes of prime beef — and it is prime beef , because intervention accepts only the very best steer beef . |
| 19 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 20 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 21 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 22 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 23 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 24 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 25 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 26 | I lost about a hundred relatives in Auschwitz . ’ |
| 27 | We hit about a hundred miles per hour minimum within seconds and hold it . |
| 28 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 29 | Fourth , a study in the Brighton Health Authority area ( Levy 1985 ) investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during 1984 , producing an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the 15–35-year-old population . |
| 30 | Fifth , an interim report of the Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project ( Gay et al .1985 ) , which investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during the one-year period ending March 1985 , reported an estimated annual prevalence rate of 0.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the total Bristol population . |