Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 2 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 3 | Only a thousand pounds a week , yacht included . |
| 4 | Only a thousand people a year use it ; but it 's useful if she 's really decamped and you do n't know where she is . |
| 5 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 6 | That 's nearly a thousand pound a week . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 8 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
| 9 | About a hundred people a day . |
| 10 | Sitting in front of you is a gentleman who was paying what , about a hundred pound a week sir ? |
| 11 | According to UNICEF , about a million babies a year die because their mothers stop breast feeding too soon and switch to dried milk substitutes — without access to clean water for mixing . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 13 | She works in oils and , among other things , paints about a dozen portraits a year , charging £400 upwards . |
| 14 | Two hundred catalogues of the library were printed and there were about a dozen borrowers a week . |
| 15 | The original version of this machine — which Nelson eventually patented in 1955 — could cut about a dozen bars a minute : the version now in use can cut up to 400 a minute . |
| 16 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 17 | That 's why the new podiatry surgery centre at Burghill near Hereford is seen as a success ; it 'll handle around a thousand patients a year , patients who could otherwise spend years on the waiting list . |
| 18 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 19 | Afterall a good horse will cost you a fortune to buy … and then having it trained and ridden by the best will set you back at least a thousand pounds a month … |
| 20 | Shutting it down will save the National Health Service almost a million pounds a year . |
| 21 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 22 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
| 23 | The All Wheel Drive Club was started for jeeps and landrovers … now the machines come in all shapes and sizes … there are over a hundred meetings a year … there 's 10 rounds of the British Safari Championship … |
| 24 | But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable . |
| 25 | The company decided to put all it 's litigation work , worth over a million pounds a year , out to tender . |
| 26 | Now that he has advanced to the front ranks of the most expensive and super-hyped entertainment on earth , Brundle has acquired some of the essential accoutrements of a global celebrity who earns over a million dollars a year . |
| 27 | value for money is another proud boast of the greyhounds … you can own and race a dog for just over a thousand pounds a year and there 's prize money for all … that 's why so many more people are coming racing … why so many are owners |
| 28 | These three decisions alone show the cutting-edge of semi-literacy winning over the high cultural standards that the BBC is supposed to stand for , and indeed the justification — the only one — for the subvention of over a billion pounds a year from the British taxpayer . |
| 29 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |