Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example . |
| 2 | At 75 per cent you see 124 mph , yet flat-out only adds a further 4 mph . |
| 3 | Further , in this particular case , not only had the Controller seen fit to over-rule his Director , but had only permitted a mere four days recuperation period to allow his fallen agent to recover from his injuries . |
| 4 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 5 | The total size of the claims resulting from such an incident might well be enormous , even though the computer program itself may have only cost a few hundred pounds . |
| 6 | Friends of the dead man , seventy year-old Jim Eggleton , had got together to offer a ten thousand pound reward to find the killer . |
| 7 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
| 8 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 9 | It has since leased a further three aircraft from GPA . |
| 10 | A couple who make medieval musical instruments have just won a fifty thousand pound order from the Far East . |
| 11 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 12 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 13 | Next thing they were down with the measuring up and we 'd just got a four thousand pound rate bill ! |
| 14 | And I 've just got a twenty five pound voucher for Marks and Spencer . |
| 15 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 16 | Her response to ‘ free ’ time is to fill it with more housework , and her housework ideals shape the way she brings up her children ( the insistence on not letting a messy three year old feed herself , for example ) . |
| 17 | Since this sequence can not be represented in any other way ( see below ) , you can not cancel a suspended CLI command file from within a program . |
| 18 | Remember , you can not cancel a suspended CLi command file from within a program . |
| 19 | KEVIN PRESSMAN last night revealed that he still wants to leave Sheffield Wednesday — even though he has just signed a new three-and-a-half year contract . |
| 20 | It coincided with the news that she had just signed a new one year shoe contract with the company as part of its ongoing support for British tennis . |
| 21 | Just do a real one mate . |
| 22 | But today we already generate a thousand million marks a year from small and middle-sized companies ’ . |
| 23 | This is probably an aberrant copy ; but it may just represent a true 1692 state with the stage/page discrepancies in Act 1 already made good . |
| 24 | ‘ That first record was finally released a good 18 months later than it should have been , ’ said the source . |
| 25 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
| 26 | options over 6 million ordinary shares have been issued to date and the scheme still has a further 2 years to run . |
| 27 | If he did , he would have to abandon the Volvo , always parked a few hundred yards away , and escape on foot . |
| 28 | They are rather slow-growing and usually take a good six months to reach 1″ . |
| 29 | He still had a good forty minutes to prove the power of diplomacy . |
| 30 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |