Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's not enough to play like that once every ten weeks . ’ |
| 2 | This butterfly only migrates there in flocks like this once every four years . |
| 3 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 4 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 5 | By the time he retired in 1914 nearly a million men , women , and children had held membership , often briefly . |
| 6 | In 1990 nearly a million homes were burgled , almost 20% up on the previous year . |
| 7 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |