Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together . |
| 2 | From the two and a half million prints on file those of Mathew Bryce appeared on the screen . |
| 3 | A SITE inspection panel is recommending refusal of an application to build a further five dwellings on land at Aberceiro Farm , Llandre , near Aberystwyth . |
| 4 | With World War II came one more hit , Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary ? ( 1944 ) , which Lynn produced and played for more than two years at the Duke of York 's Theatre and a further two years on tour . |
| 5 | There is also an entitlement to maternity pay for six weeks at 90% of pay and a further 12 weeks on maternity benefit . |
| 6 | On Feb. 5 the UN Security Council extended economic sanctions against Iraq for a further 60 days on account of Iraq 's non-compliance with previous UN resolutions . |
| 7 | It expects a further 29 tonnes on completion of the CEGB/SSEB Magnox programme plus an additional 34 tonnes of plutonium from the existing and committed AGR programme . |
| 8 | It involves a huge staff of unseen hands working together to give four guys a trouble-free two hours on stage every night . |
| 9 | A sturdy 62 motions on Health have been submitted by Constituency Associations . |
| 10 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 11 | I mean every year we have a campaign from about the middle of January to the end of February where we promote British holidays through our shop windows , and in fact I was just totting up our advertising spend in the last four or five weeks and I would say we have spent almost a hundred thousand pounds on partner advertising for Lunn Poly — book your holiday at Lunn Poly for U K holidays . |
| 12 | Erm you earn commission by taking clients who might spend say a hundred thousand pounds on business travel , whether it be flights trains |
| 13 | Announcing an extra 50,000 places on Government training schemes she promised to ‘ do all I can to help unemployed people get back to work ’ . |