Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 2 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 3 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 4 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 5 | Seagulls , able to detect the appearance of a piece of bread at a hundred yards away , advanced slowly towards them over the shelving ground . |
| 6 | Joyce 's family is numbered with the grains of sand in a thousand egg-timers . |
| 7 | It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries . |
| 8 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 9 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 10 | Er this er James can I ask you erm if we could establish what the stage er the next stage remain unspent probably er so that we the er paper indicates er er schedule of balance of a thousand pounds . |