Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He follows the Downtown postings , up , round , through , and over ; one of a thousand particles circling the orbits of a complex molecule . |
| 2 | He was back at the track to mark the donation of a quarter of a million pounds to refurbish the surface . |
| 3 | But now farmer Jeremy Chamberlayne has spent three quarters of a million pounds turning the cattle yards into offices : |
| 4 | The symbolism was potent enough for a hundred generations to keep the chalk clear |
| 5 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 6 | A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour . |
| 7 | I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans . |