Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
2 | Witney Town turned in an excellent performance to come back from a two goal deficit to snatch a point against mid-table Yate . |
3 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
4 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
5 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
6 | Colling , who admitted causing criminal damage , common assault , unlawful wounding , and three charges of obtaining property by deception , was sentenced to eight months imprisonment , to run consecutively with an 18 month sentence he received at Durham Crown Court in February after being convicted of other deception charges . |
7 | Morris was at the heart of an amazing North defensive effort to hold on to a 24-17 half-time lead in the face of a strong second-half wind . |
8 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
9 | He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there . |
10 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
11 | I mean , to drive round in a one point six basic Sierra , well it 's pathetic |