Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 2 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 3 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | This collection of a dozen essays is offered to mark the occasion , to advertise the vigour and diversity of current research , and to encourage informed admiration and appreciation of the music . |
| 5 | There 's another cost of a million pounds which results from a change in government policy of the cost of government policy , now this is including the er unfair funding of G M schools and including the loss of that was just , just mentioned . |
| 6 | Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians . |