Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 2 | Lot number one O three Lot number one O three for a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one twenty , any more at one hundred and twenty pounds , at one twen anybody else at one hundred and twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 3 | As the spectrum includes four b-type bands we assign these to a 1 vibrations and the a-type bands to b 2 vibrations ( Fig. 5.30 ) . |
| 4 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 5 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 6 | Lot number one three four , one three four is the pipe there 's Lot number one three four at eighty pounds , at eighty , eighty five , ninety five at a hundred pounds and ten one ten one twenty , thirty one thirty , forty , fifty one fifty , one sixty offered I 'm offered a |
| 7 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 8 | There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so . |
| 9 | As a result , its fields are competitive with a dozen men and women hoping to win the $25,000 first prize , and if not , go away with at least a little piece of the $160,000 prize money . |