Example sentences of "something [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dealt with something like 5000 letters a week and interviewed up to 500 petitioners on behalf of children still in Germany . |
| 2 | Well , twenty six I think it 's something like is n't it something like two pounds a gallon now ? |
| 3 | But obviously in a recessionary period , which we are certainly not out of yet , you have to remember that Alton Towers has a per cap of something like fourteen pounds a head at the moment , er , average of all people . |
| 4 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |
| 5 | This is something like twelve times the number of flights G-BEBP had carried out when the failure occurred . |
| 6 | The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight . |
| 7 | However , even simple estimates for the W particle suggest that it should weigh in at something like 30 times the proton 's mass . |
| 8 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |