Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be travelling in a traditional 65 foot long Greek style caique which accommodates a party of 32 or a 105 foot long motor cruiser which carries 48 people — both with twin engines . |
| 2 | Fifty or a hundred quid a lorry depending on the load . ’ |
| 3 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 4 | There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows . |
| 5 | rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ? |
| 6 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 7 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 8 | The Common Professional Examination is taken after a one year full-time or a two year part-time course covering the six core subjects . |
| 9 | We believe that the migration rates that should be used should be a three year average rather than an eight or a ten year average . |
| 10 | One litter a year is quite enough for my needs , and it is in any case very much better to look after one litter properly — it may number eight or a dozen — than to spread the effort ( and the food available ) through a much larger number . |
| 11 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 12 | If , we reasoned , there really is a morphogen gradient , it should be possible to weaken the signal by decreasing the concentration , and so , instead of getting an additional set of digits 4 , 3 , 2 at the anterior margin only a 3 , 2 or a 2 should develop . |
| 13 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 14 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 15 | In 100 years will anyone know the difference between this and a Nineties rétro movie ? |
| 16 | A lot in it er but you can learn a lot from it and eventually you 'll be able to do any sort of these pie charts , if somebody says well you 've got four pound eighty to spend , and somebody spends three quarters on this and a tenths on that , two fifteenths on something else and you can add them all up and do a nice chart . |
| 17 | Some Allerce trees are up to four thousand years old and a hundred and fifty foot tall and come from a very threatened environment |
| 18 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 19 | Thus , an 80 year old and a 40 year old should have an equal chance of being offered cardiac surgery in equivalent circumstances . |
| 20 | In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ there is no chasm between the opinions and ethics of a forty year old and an eighteen year old . |
| 21 | These included a reduction in value added tax from 18 to 17 per cent at the start of 1993 and a 4 percentage point cut in the corporate tax rate to 36 per cent spread over the 1993-97 period . |
| 22 | Data General 's first use of the 88110 will be in a workstation , followed by 200 to 400 MIPS-rated mid-range AViiON systems in spring 1993 and an 800 MIPS-rated rack-mount machine by the end of next year . |
| 23 | Pre-auction press releases announced that Lefty Gardner 's P-38 and a 1929 Ford 5-AT trimotor would be on the block but both aircraft were withdrawn from the sale . |
| 24 | Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period . |
| 25 | As high as a 30 storey building , it then extends above a sea level , clearing the 100 year storm level and forms the base structure housing accommodation areas , power plants , processing equipment , helideck and other topside modules . |
| 26 | They made extensive use of sub-contractors , some of whom might agree to bring as few as a dozen men-at-arms and archers to the force . |
| 27 | However there are many less ambitious preservation projects which would be possible with as few as a dozen determined people and not too expensive . |
| 28 | It makes sense that the ineffable languor of Prince is infinitely more fruitious than a thousand sinewy Age of Chance slogans . |
| 29 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 30 | The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away . |