Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |
| 2 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 3 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 4 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 5 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 6 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 7 | The first machines looked at a few dozen positions a second ; the more recent , 1200–1500 a second . |
| 8 | A decade of it now , ten years at two and a half thousand pages a year . |
| 9 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 10 | A divorced father says he 's facing financial ruin after his maintenance payments for his children were increased from five pence a year to almost three and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 11 | And very , yeah , I mean th that 's , that 's all that this exploration of needs is , is just saying you retired yesterday and you were earning twelve thousand a year , you 're now gon na be earning two and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 12 | ‘ That you should consider three and a half thousand pounds a lot of money ? ’ |
| 13 | Since the big companies moved in the annual haul from these waters has increased from three and a half thousand to two and a half million tons a year . |
| 14 | It 's budget — around one and a half million pounds a year . |
| 15 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 16 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 17 | So by sharing a little of what we have , we can remover the threat of these terrible diseases which , currently , kill three and a half million children a year . |
| 18 | I think the bottom line cost for U K P L C er the Health and Safety Exe Executive estimates this to be seven and a half billion pounds a year . |
| 19 | In addition , a further 1,500 complaints a month are received concerning double glazing companies . |
| 20 | Sponsored by Wedgwood , Ray attended Staffordshire University for around nine hours each week and studied at home for a further 12 hours a week . |
| 21 | It cost a mere eight pounds a week to rent . |
| 22 | However , in a separate report compiled by consultant analyst Brian Sturgess , ‘ The Funding Bible ’ , the BBC is urged to take advertising , predicting that a mere two minutes a day on both BBC1 and BBC2 would net the Corporation £433m by the year 2000 at 1991 prices . |
| 23 | The whole regiment had been cut to emergency rations of a mere three meals a day , and those cold and rain soaked , eaten in miserable silence . |
| 24 | So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years . |
| 25 | Fifty-five years later , Hans Berger , a psychiatrist working in Jena , reported similar fluctuations in humans and discovered that , in a resting subject , this electroencephalogram ( EEG ) oscillated at a regular eight cycles a second , a pattern he called the alpha rhythm . |
| 26 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 27 | But today we already generate a thousand million marks a year from small and middle-sized companies ’ . |
| 28 | The bureau is looking for people with a spare six hours a week who would be able to cope with working in a busy office . |
| 29 | Qualified conductors work a compulsory nineteen hours a week , but most work up to thirty hours as there is so much to do . |
| 30 | Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target . |