Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was an heiress and she had a hundred thousand pounds and Mr Vigo wanted money to collect that Chinese stuff . |
| 2 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 3 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 4 | In Spain , we have a further nine years to wait before we see whether similar views are expressed . |
| 5 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 6 | They have a further seven players in the under-16 squad . |
| 7 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 8 | By his second wife , Alice Brindley of Hyde , daughter of William Brindley , he had a further five sons and five daughters . |
| 9 | Last April , three of us had a wonderful five days , walking from Machynlleth to Harlech , taking in Cader Idris and the Rhinogs on the way . |