Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Meningitis Trust has a turnover approaching a million pounds a year , a full-time staff of 16 , and trials begin in Gloucestershire next year on additional vaccines . |
| 2 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 3 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
| 4 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 5 | Existing ’ defined ’ boundaries sometimes need monitoring : the author on one occasion was involved with a site where development was delayed pending completion of a sewerage scheme and one boundary advanced a few feet a year , flower beds , lawn and all . |
| 6 | The stretch of beach attracts a million visitors a year and wardens collect an average of two tons of litter each day . |
| 7 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
| 8 | His plan , he explained , was to become a good enough draughtsman to earn a hundred francs a month and so support himself modestly without assistance . |