Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 2 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 3 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 4 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 5 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 6 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |
| 7 | If Leonard and Moore become an effective unit and Lions ' newcomer Martin Johnson plays to his normal form , there is the possibility of a dozen Englishmen in the second Test . |
| 8 | The UK boasts more than 50 machines from a dozen manufacturers in the class which covers everything from outright super sports machines to all rounders , custom bikes and dual purpose on/off road trail bikes . |
| 9 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 10 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 11 | There is also a plan for over a 100 turbines in the Cambrian Mountains in Wales . |
| 12 | Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated . |