Example sentences of "[verb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 2 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 4 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 5 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 6 | If he gave up now it would be like walking a hundred miles and then refusing to take the very last single step that would complete the journey . |
| 7 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 8 | We still grow some of the varieties listed a hundred years ago many of which had already been improved by the 1890s , some favourites like ‘ White Lisbon ’ spring onions and ‘ Scarlet Globe ’ and ‘ French Breakfast ’ radishes were also established . |
| 9 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 10 | One mechanical method of generating a range of switching angles is to use a fine resolution optical encoder producing several position pulses per step , but this is prohibitively expensive for small step.angle motors ; a 200 steps per revolution motor would need a 1600 counts per revolution encoder to give a choice of 8 switching angles . |
| 11 | In some cases , a company may need a dozen licences from a dozen universities for any particular genetically-engineered product . |
| 12 | Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres . |
| 13 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 14 | It 's got you need to write a hundred words or less what you want to be older and plans for the future . |
| 15 | Do you enter a big competition , and you could win a million pounds plus six . |
| 16 | The closest to the truth will win a thousand dollars credit at their local Titancorp comics store , a Captain Haddock T-shirt and an all-expenses-paid holiday for two in balmy Beirut . |
| 17 | Like send a hundred ships full of men and munitions to help the bastards , Edward thought . |
| 18 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 19 | I says to Steve , I may as well buy a ten pounds worth of anything else |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , it 's our centenary and we are charging the prices we charged a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 21 | Such Maoisms as ‘ Let a hundred flowers bloom ’ and ‘ Imperialism is a paper tiger ’ were anathema to Khrushchev . |
| 22 | The feeling of vague unease he had felt when the Sweeper had visited the Cages that evening now returned sharply , almost painfully , multiplied a hundred times . |
| 23 | If the gallery outside the silver door had hummed and quivered and thrown out heat before , now the sensations were magnified and multiplied a hundred times as Calatin set the Silver Looms to harness the power of the sorcerer . |
| 24 | So the ordered structure of the Sun , with its retinue of planets , repeated what was occurring a million times around other similar stars of the same mass and density — what is known as ‘ main sequence ’ stars . |
| 25 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |
| 26 | I want a thousand pounds to come through the door now . |
| 27 | And I want a dozen bottles for myself ’ |
| 28 | You 've got a dozen items I want a dozen items |
| 29 | The Charity wants a million pounds and a million items of winter clothing as part of their 'Cold Front' appeal . |
| 30 | Queen Victoria and George V presided a dozen times over the formation of minority or coalition governments . |