Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to live a hundred years with the ones I 've got now , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 3 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 4 | I would need to make a two-into-one jack socket for the speaker — would this cause problems ? |
| 5 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 6 | It is a horrifying thought because a good , well trained polisher would have served a seven year apprenticeship and we contemporary furniture-makers can not pretend to get near that knowledge and experience . |
| 7 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
| 8 | The Netherlands Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , on Feb. 14 halted a $1,500 million sale of four submarines to Taiwan , which he said would have breached a 1984 accord with China [ see pp. 33036-37 ] . |
| 9 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 10 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |
| 11 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |
| 12 | I like to know which players in the premier league you would pick to form a 18 men squad if you were manager of a new team . |
| 13 | I ca n't stress enough how we would love to get a hundred percent response for the parties from all our branches , so get the balloons and the collecting bins out please and please make the most of the idea . |