Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | REGGAE star Shabba Ranks has finally scored his first solo hit after releasing a staggering 30 singles on 15 different labels since 1988 . |
| 2 | But after amassing a remarkable 222 points for , 26 against , record in an unbeaten eight-match run in the pool rounds , lo and behold , on the third day they faced their Nemesis . |
| 3 | On the telephone , they used rhyming slang in case they were overheard ; at the celebrations , the fine crystal glass and good company belied the hazards of patrolling a few dozen miles away . |
| 4 | Who would n't jump at the chance of spending a free six months in the Southern Hemisphere , flights paid , car provided and all for a few afternoons coaching ? |
| 5 | Our objective , the objective of giving a fifty thousand pounds refund on Green Bottom , was twofold . |
| 6 | If the problem you 're confronted with is a ten thousand pound bit of influence , then it 's worth spending a few hundred pounds in a preparation . |
| 7 | In Derbyshire , the A fifty two in has a temporary thirty miles per hour speed limit , and temporary traffic lights in operation . |
| 8 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 9 | In my statement to the House of 15 January , I explained th steps that I had taken to improve the first five environmentally sensitive areas designated in 1987 , my plans for reviewing this year those ESAs designated in 1988 , including any boundary adjustments , and my timetable for designating a further 12 areas this year and in 1993 . |
| 10 | But they finished as kings by scoring a third 8 minutes from time . |
| 11 | Having started in films by putting a few thousand pounds into a short religious picture in 1933 , he went on to form British National , a production company , in association with Lady Yule , the wealthy widow of a Calcutta jute merchant . |
| 12 | Given the choice , she 'd really rather have had an assignment in Outer Mongolia or possibly Timbuktu — maybe by putting a few thousand miles between herself and Dane she 'd manage to get him out of her mind . |
| 13 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |