Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've just signed Schwarzenegger for a three-movie deal , my wife 's oil paintings are going to be shown in a major London gallery , my son got first-class honours at Oxford and I 've won half a million on the pools . ’ |
| 2 | I handed Miss Sowerby half a dozen of the strips . |
| 3 | Out on the floor of the house , about half a dozen of the tables would already be occupied . |
| 4 | I think we 've gone through all the sevens in the blacks ai n't you ? |
| 5 | There are lesser seas which must also be included , in particular the fifteen around the islands of the East Indian archipelago : the Sulu , Celebes and Molucca Seas , the Gulf of Tomini , the Halmahera , Ceram , Banda , Arafura ( which may or may not contain the Gulf of Carpentaria , depending on which atlas is used ) , Timor and Flores Seas , the Gulf of Boni , the Bali Sea , the Makassar Strait , the Java and Savu Seas ; and there is the Gulf of Thailand , the Strait of Malacca , the Singapore Strait and the Inland Sea of Japan . |