Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 2 | The Tiger Islands , the Brujas Islands and the Trinidad Islands are the summits of drowned hills , covered with tropical jungle and noisy with a hundred kinds of colourful birds . |
| 3 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 4 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 5 | It 's one of a dozen drugs of its kind currently being researched . |
| 6 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 7 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |
| 8 | He informed Wilner that he had calculated the energy that would be released and it was over a million kilojoules , equivalent to a thousand grams of dynamite . |
| 9 | These have maximum ranges of 2000 km and 4100 km respectively , and they each carry a single warhead with a yield of one megaton ( equivalent to a million tonnes of TNT ) . |