Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |
| 2 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 3 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 5 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 6 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |