Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've raised more than a thousand pounds to fly the five year old to Britain for surgery . |
| 2 | The charity interviewed more than a hundred youngsters accross the country and found that : |
| 3 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 4 | Outremer — " the land beyond the sea " — was on the verge of extinction , less than a hundred years alter the men of the First Crusade had called it into life . |
| 5 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 6 | There 's no evidence to suggest that an unusual names increase the selling rate . |
| 7 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 8 | It took four and a half hours to reach the summit and , believing it would be easier and quicker to regain the glacier by traversing the mountain , we continued our crab-like progression to the west . |
| 9 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 10 | Players score one point for a win , half for a draw and the first player to reach five and a half points wins the match . |
| 11 | It takes er one and a half days to do the base and er eight , eight days and eight Mondays to er to do the walls but two hundred and four , four days in total ca n't stop the concrete . |
| 12 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | The only men in evidence at Group were the Met and Operations Room Officers , and a few erks to do the pen-pushing jobs . |
| 14 | In lowland England , then , only the church , the manor house , and a few cottages pre-date the Industrial Revolution . |
| 15 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought a quick gallop , a guzzle of the local tincture and a few snaps to record the event for posterity . ’ |
| 17 | Some royal mortuary cults were maintained for longer than others and a few kings became the subject of special worship , amongst whom were Amenophis I with his mother queen Ahmose-Nefertari as patron gods of the Theban necropolis , Sesostris III in Nubia , Amenemhat III in the Fayum , Amenophis III at Soleb , and Ramesses II at Abu Simbel and as patron of soldiers in the East Delta . |
| 18 | He hands me a billy and suggests I get some snow for water and a few twigs to start the fire . |
| 19 | Conventional programs ( Fig. 2 ) embed the knowledge in the instructions , making it very difficult for all but a few programmers to understand the logic of the program . |
| 20 | After a few days comes the next crucial stage in the breaking process . |