Example sentences of "[det] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost half a million visitors a year come to wander round the grounds or float past in punts on the River Cherwell . |
| 2 | I write as chairman of Connoisseurs Scotland , the association of top Scottish hotels whose members provide something close to half a million bed-nights a year . |
| 3 | Two workshops for the disabled could be closed to save a council nearly half a million pounds a year . |
| 4 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |
| 5 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 6 | Today Loblaws makes about half a million dollars a week on its 20 or so ‘ green ’ products — and sales are increasing . |
| 7 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |
| 8 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
| 9 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 10 | Higher excise duty accounts for most of the difference , stores like Tesco reckon it 's losing them sales of half a billion pounds a year . |
| 11 | In an attempt to prevent any further loss of the country 's mangroves , Ecuadorian environmentalists are calling for strict control over the expansion of shrimp farming , a key export industry which earns Ecuador half a billion dollars a year in foreign exchange . |
| 12 | Mr Richter was so smitten by Mr Cliburn 's talent , and so bored by the competition ( 1958 was the last time he ever served as judge for anything ) , that he decided to give the talented American pianist the top score of 25 for everything and all the other contestants a zero for everything . |
| 13 | It gives all the other strugglers a bit of heart . " |
| 14 | Every buyer , prospective lessee and mortgagee of unregistered land should search before completion — no search is necessary in the case of registered land , whose Registers contain all the protective entries a purchaser needs ( except overriding interests — p73 below ) . |
| 15 | My mother … held all the conventional opinions a person was obliged to have , but then her unconscious personality would suddenly put in an appearance . |
| 16 | The easiest trick is to make all the leading values a multiple of the base or text leading — we call this the modulus . |