Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 2 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 3 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 4 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 5 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 6 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 7 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 8 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 9 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 10 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 11 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 12 | A property developer is hoping to defy the recession by putting flats in a converted Mill on the market at up to a quarter of a million pounds a time . |
| 13 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |
| 14 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 15 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 16 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 17 | You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first . |
| 18 | Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims . |
| 19 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 20 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 21 | In his desperation Tam gave the name of a Black Watch friend , got the job and donned the Black Watch kilt for a few coppers an hour the shame of it . |
| 22 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
| 23 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 24 | However , if there is no improvement within a few weeks an appropriate referral should be made . |
| 25 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 26 | It 's a good idea to run your central heating pump for a few minutes a week in summer to prevent it from seizing up when the system is not in use . |
| 27 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
| 28 | It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon . |