Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun pl] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , compared with being sedentary ( sitting watching TV , working at a desk ) , you will burn around three times more calories walking at 3 miles an hour . |
| 2 | Bob , son of the designer of the Norseman , worked with his father one summer flight testing Norseman aircraft , for which he was paid 40 cents an hour , later rising to 52 cents an hour ! |
| 3 | Now it has been upgraded still further to a severe tropical storm : winds at the centre , measured by radar and by American air force planes despatched from the big bases in Japan and the Philippines , are gusting to eighty miles an hour . |
| 4 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 5 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 6 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 7 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 8 | So if you were caught speeding at 90 miles an hour along the M4 in Wiltshire your fine would calculate something like this |
| 9 | Speeding at 20 miles an hour over the limit is a five unit crime . |
| 10 | Some antelopes have been recorded fleeing at 42 miles an hour for a mile , or 35 miles an hour for 4 miles , and deer have been able to sustain 30 miles an hour for an astonishing 20 miles . |