Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 2 | He makes it sound like a hundred miles instead of nine , Juliet thought , rising reluctantly . |
| 3 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
| 4 | We used to live about a hundred yards away from the main park in Colchester . |
| 5 | We turned our heads in the direction the Brigadier is pointing and see a Commando about a hundred-and-fifty yards away towards the end of the orchard and almost obscured by the trees , making his way slowly in the direction of Scouse 's latrine . |
| 6 | The wait would be well worth it for such a blind release ; and in this motley crowd , drawn from a dozen hamlets outside in addition to the town , her companion was nameless and faceless as a hunted man could wish to be . |
| 7 | The butteris was in use until a hundred years ago in Britain with local variations in form , as seen in the examples from Oxfordshire and Sussex ( fig. 6.2 ) now in the Museum of Rural Life at Reading . |
| 8 | But er what we say is that we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles away from home |
| 9 | All assignments up to a hundred miles away from home you will be paid thirty percent . |
| 10 | know for all assignments up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 11 | well erm we we pay thirty percent commission up to a hundred miles away from home . |