Example sentences of "[verb] a [num] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John-William insisting on having everything just so , Amabel herself taking time and immense delight in her choice of furnishings , living a dozen delightful dramas every day over Aubusson rugs and inlaid cabinets , the recklessness of silk damask on newly plastered walls , the sheer extravagances of crystal and china which Linnet — the dear child — had encouraged her to commit . |
| 2 | Doctors treating a blood disease which kills a hundred unborn babies a year , say they need new equipment if they 're to save more lives . |
| 3 | So I went to New York — and there were no jobs there , either , not unless you had a college degree or you could type a million billion words a minute . |
| 4 | One hundred and fifty years ago it did not exist , but at the opening of the present decade the UK alone claimed to generate a thousand new jobs a week in the travel and tourism sector . |
| 5 | But today we already generate a thousand million marks a year from small and middle-sized companies ’ . |