Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.

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1 But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera .
2 Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia .
3 A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true .
4 Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round .
5 In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway .
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