Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sartre is reported to have said that he did not feel free without a thousand francs in his pocket ; this is clearly a freedom which can only be enjoyed by a few . |
| 2 | The Tiger Islands , the Brujas Islands and the Trinidad Islands are the summits of drowned hills , covered with tropical jungle and noisy with a hundred kinds of colourful birds . |
| 3 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 4 | It 's based on my experience of presenting thousands of them in close to a hundred countries around the world , under a wide variety of conditions . |
| 5 | From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability . |
| 6 | He informed Wilner that he had calculated the energy that would be released and it was over a million kilojoules , equivalent to a thousand grams of dynamite . |
| 7 | These have maximum ranges of 2000 km and 4100 km respectively , and they each carry a single warhead with a yield of one megaton ( equivalent to a million tonnes of TNT ) . |