Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " 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 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 3 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 4 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 5 | 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 . |