Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began a letter a month after their arrival with the words , ‘ Here we are in a large mansion , in a large park , with seventy head of deer around us ’ , before going on to describe a house which contained ‘ furniture enough for a dozen families like ours ’ . |
| 2 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 3 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |
| 4 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 5 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 6 | Sue 's just gone past at a hundred miles per hour . |
| 7 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 8 | Karl , 62 , was sentenced in Bangkok five years ago to a HUNDRED years for murdering his Thai bride-to-be , but was released under an amnesty marking Queen Sirikit 's 60th birthday . |
| 9 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 10 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |