Example sentences of "[adj] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously inspired by MADONNA 's example , ( and it seems that she 's about to be millions of dollars richer as over half a million copies of Sex changed hands last week ) CURVE have decided to come over all raunchy and are releasing a Stateside compilation which goes under the provocative title of ‘ Pubic Fruit ’ , although whose pubes are involved we are not informed . |
| 2 | Olma , the Swiss Agriculture and Dairy Fair brings around half a million visitors to St Gallen each year . |
| 3 | The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has shown that the city draws in nearly half a million tonnes of firewood every year . |
| 4 | They paid half a million pounds for Norweigan International striker Jan Orga Fiortoft |
| 5 | A hospital burns unit is trying to raise half a million pounds for resesarch into new techniques of plastic and micro-surgery . |
| 6 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 7 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 8 | A new University is spending half a million pounds on TV advertising to attract more students . |
| 9 | Tynagh Mines ' manager , David Fitzgerald , denied all the allegations and said that the company had spent half a million pounds on safety work and intended spending a further £200,000 . |
| 10 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 11 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 12 | Down to a skeleton staff , half a million pounds in debt and with the smallest county staff cut to the bone by an injury crisis , Kim Barnett 's side worked a miracle . |
| 13 | They 're claiming almost half a million pounds in compensation , plus extra damages because bailiffs were sent into their shops . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 15 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 16 | It was more like a personal appearance by a pop star … just a glimpse of Desert Orchid was enough to draw the crowds and set the cameras clicking.But after all , this was the horse with his own fanclub.And he has created a few records.Between 1983 and 1991 Dezi won 34 steeplechases , picking up half a million pounds in prize money into the bargain.Now he 's retired … and enjoying the fame : |
| 17 | The scale of this operation is such that the rehearsal alone will cost more than half a million pounds in fuel . |
| 18 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 19 | Outgoing Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir was reported on June 27 to have said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv : " I would have carried on autonomy talks for 10 years and meanwhile we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria [ the West Bank ] … |
| 20 | As well as great historic houses , it is important to remember that the Trust also owns over half a million acres of land and many vernacular buildings . |
| 21 | The National Trust protects over half a million acres of countryside , mountains and lakes , farms and woods , and over 500 miles of coastline , nearly all of which is free to be enjoyed by everyone , to walk , sail , climb , picnic , or just simply relax . |
| 22 | Similarly , Congress played no role of consequence in the Cuban Missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson , by the end of his presidency , had more than half a million troops in Vietnam without Congress ever having declared war against the North Vietnamese . |
| 23 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 24 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 25 | There have been more than half a million applications for asylum in Europe this year . |
| 26 | He said the Government would be introducing new training schemes , offering nearly half a million places in April . |
| 27 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 28 | Egged on by her colleagues , she pitched Sir Willie on half a million shares in OTC traded Crane Holdings , at 28p . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't do half a dozen pages of dialogue if you 're pissed , ’ said Reed . |
| 30 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |