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

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1 The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe .
2 It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day
3 Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day .
4 Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class !
5 But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year .
6 So what 's different about Mark 's plan to sell components from our European plants into the United States , if we can save the Corporation a billion dollars a year by doin' so ? ,
7 I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima
8 To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ?
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