Example sentences of "[num] of a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 2 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 3 | Russian losses were massive — General Falkenhayn estimated human loss at about ‘ three-quarters of a million men in prisoners alone ’ — and artillery and weaponry of all kinds had been taken in great quantity . |
| 4 | RUPERT Murdoch and Reed International yesterday resumed their battle to carve up a large slice of America 's publishing industry between them , by spending more than three-quarters of a billion dollars on two major companies . |
| 5 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 6 | It 's one of a dozen drugs of its kind currently being researched . |
| 7 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 8 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |