Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a [num] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people might think I was approached by Harper Collins with a check for half a million pounds and asked to write the book — in a way I wish I had been . |
| 2 | He , he had about half a dozen shots and there was n't one of them that |
| 3 | Within a week of launching the Oxfam Cold Front Appeal we reached our target of half a million coats and jumpers . |
| 4 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 5 | Oxford United skipper Andy Melville is set to join Sunderland … in a part exchange deal with half a million pounds and Irish defender Anton Rogan coming to the Manor … |
| 6 | Defence is provided in West Germany by armed forces whose number totals close to half a million men and women . |
| 7 | In 1971 , a new covenant was signed by over half a million men and women , committing protestants to a renewal of the covenant political ideal . |
| 8 | The police are now investigating and already trading standards officers have been contacted by half a dozen tenants and landlords who believe they 've lost out |