Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] a [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 2 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 3 | A sailor stood beside the captain , behind them a dozen men in jungle fatigues and black berets . |
| 4 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 5 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |