Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver . |
| 2 | Since 1959 , when the Social Democrats embraced capitalism , German politics has been a large clustering around the centre , with only a few dissenters on the margins . |
| 3 | You 'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things . |
| 4 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |
| 5 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 6 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |