Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
2 | we know , from research even amongst very young girls who only smoke a few cigarettes a week , that when they try to give up they get withdrawal symptoms , and so having a cigarette erm helps them |
3 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
4 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
5 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |
6 | Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? ) |
7 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
8 | Could you spare a few hours a month to be a secretary or chairman of a group , a Panda keeper , or trading officer ? |
9 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
10 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
11 | ‘ We lose a few holidaymakers every year . |
12 | The engines said to Truro , he was first to go a hundred miles an hour . |
13 | His reported reaction was that if his order could answer a hundred heretics a year , they would not be beaten by one Catholic . |
14 | The company is the largest builder of motorcaravans in Britain , producing a thousand vehicles a year at its Cotswold factory . |
15 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
16 | Since he could command a thousand guineas a time , he was well able to afford such a residence . |
17 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
18 | He takes a few players every year on his estancia . |
19 | My brother does a paper round and delivers a hundred newspapers every morning |
20 | I get a dozen scripts a week like that . |
21 | Myself , I get a dozen invitations a year … |
22 | It 's expensive , the habit can cost a thousand pounds a week . |
23 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
24 | ‘ I thought you told me you 'd be getting a hundred guineas a time if you were a television personality , John ? ’ said Bob . |
25 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
26 | Suddenly there was Anna doing a hundred things a day : the house wide open , parties and picnics and streams of presents . |
27 | Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour . |
28 | So doing a hundred miles an hour . |
29 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
30 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |