Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [num] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Hari knew that the two shillings a week would be crippling unless Edward Morris lived up to his promise of bringing in extra business . |
2 | IT 'S a myth that the three words a woman most likes to hear are ‘ I love you . ’ |
3 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
4 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
5 | If it does come on stream , each theatre would be able to carry out roughly ten per cent more operations than the 1930s theatres the suite will replace . |
6 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
7 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
8 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
9 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
10 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
11 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
12 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |
13 | The 120 pupils met normally in groups of thirty , but for these occasions were divided into eight groups of fifteen , and the twelve periods a week in fact came out as two double periods , one whole morning and one whole afternoon . |
14 | ALTP/CL Class I standards will remain almost the same , apart from a haemoglobin blood test every medical , and every five years a serum lipids ( fats ) cholesterol test . |
15 | The losses of individual counties were relatively small and every four years the visit of the Australians helped to replenish the kitty . |
16 | But the two sinks the bidet and the toilet , were all like different shades , and you just like , yes , but is this all supposed to be the same thing . |
17 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |