Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the richest black African country and Kano 's got a million inhabitants . |
| 2 | Clark was eager to play in tonight 's Anglo-Italian tie against Leicester at St James 's Park but boss Keegan said : ‘ Lee has run a million miles for us this season . |
| 3 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 4 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 5 | Jay had poured a million words her way with little response . |
| 6 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 7 | His behaviour , as the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot had noted a hundred years earlier , was the prerogative of princes . |