Example sentences of "a [det] [num] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 2 | As Pavel stepped out onto the asphalt , he could see the take off of a Cathay Pacific 747 through the chainlink and across a few hundred feet of grass ; it seemed shockingly , dangerously close , and he turned his face away to look toward the main building . |
| 3 | A few hundred years of respectability and the attitude was hardening . |
| 4 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 5 | ‘ Beyond this tower there is a garden laid out in the French style — some herb banks , a small rabbit warren , and a few hundred bushes of boxwood . ’ |
| 6 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 7 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 8 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 9 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 10 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 11 | Planning has had some two and a half thousand letters of objection to it . |
| 12 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 13 | It 's home to the vast fish plants which process two and a half million tons of fishmeal every year … to be sold as animal feed . |
| 14 | structural benefits that we do have this backlog twenty six and a half million pounds of work . |
| 15 | So in net terms we can have maximum , we wo n't go to this in the current till next year , erm two and a half million pounds of growth . |
| 16 | And the market the market size really for in year one is two and a half percent which is fourteen and a half million litres of water . |
| 17 | The RSPB , as part of its ‘ Campaign for the Countryside ’ , has recently called for two and a half million acres of farmland to be taken out of production and converted to wildlife habitats , a process to be paid for by money diverted from CAP into conservation . |