Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years Beverley has taught nearly a hundred people how to make monoclonal antibodies in their laboratories . |
| 2 | A coroner 's court has heard how a fifteen year old anti-hunt demonstrator was crushed to death by a horsebox . |
| 3 | An inquest has heard how a fifteen year old girl died in a fall from her horse — even though she was wearing a recommended safety helmet . |
| 4 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 5 | Although Adrian is the Olympic champion , we both held the world record and Adrian has had perhaps a four year head start on myself . |
| 6 | The book by Bram Stoker and published at the end of the last century has sold over a million copies . |
| 7 | A fashion show has raised almost a thousand pounds for a special school for handicapped children . |
| 8 | A man armed with a handgun has stolen around a thousand pounds from an estate agents . |
| 9 | The clean-up alone has cost over a billion dollars — and is still going on . |
| 10 | At times this has involved over a hundred Rentokil staff on site at one time . |
| 11 | Helen Ayles FHCIMA has taken up a three year contract with the Hong Kong Hospital Authority as chief project manager , environmental and domestic services . |
| 12 | Forte says it has lined up a dozen beta sites among Fortune 1000 accounts — it can not publicly identify yet . |
| 13 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 14 | You would have to eat about a dozen apples in order to obtain that average daily 5 oz of sugar from this source ; you can imagine how long that would take and how difficult it would be to eat all the remainder of your daily food . |
| 15 | In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives . |
| 16 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 17 | By comparison , one of the matching health authorities would claim to have de-hospitalized over a hundred patients in a short time through one specialist developmental officer alone . |
| 18 | These changes seem to have occurred about a hundred years after the Cretan temples were rebuilt ; then , quite suddenly , in about 1600 BC , all the pottery at Phylakopi was Minoan in style . |
| 19 | Worked out right , but not in sort of , I 've bought some but including the rest of them I 've got about a hundred pounds spending . |
| 20 | No , in this country up until Christmas I 've got about a hundred pound include , including getting Christmas presents , from now too December the twenty-sixth . |
| 21 | You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ? |
| 22 | She had got over a hundred pounds . |
| 23 | Eventually they got away , but they had got hardly a hundred yards down the road when she suddenly screamed out , ‘ We 've left them . ’ |
| 24 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 25 | By 1954 Piper had brought out a 250 hp development of the aircraft called the Aztec but , to confuse us all , in 1960 they offered the Apache 235 which , as you may have guessed , sported a pair of 235 hp Lycoming engines . |
| 26 | We had gone about a hundred yards when one particular house caught my eye . |
| 27 | For the second week in succession , Spurs ' dodgy defence had thrown away a 2-0 lead . |
| 28 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 29 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 30 | Jacqui had paid out a thousand pounds for something that could be reproduced at will . |