Example sentences of "[adj] 's [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William III 's one ambition was to topple Louis XIV of France and when James II went to Ireland to establish a following there , William decided to take up arms against him . |
| 2 | Of the total , decommissioning the eight Magnox and five advanced gas-cooled power stations run by Nuclear Electric would cost £7,000 million , Scottish Nuclear 's one Magnox and two AGR stations £1,500 million , British Nuclear Fuels ' fuel treatment and reprocessing facilities £6,000 million , and the Atomic Energy Authority 's research and reprocessing facilities about £3,500 million . |
| 3 | As they left the store they picked up a copy of Allied 's 1991/1992 brochure and found the carpet was normally priced at £9.99 . |
| 4 | No , that 's eight pound in four weeks . |
| 5 | That 's nine point three million pounds of business rates , and I 'm sure I 'm not the only person here that pays business rates in Wiltshire , and I have n't noticed any sign that my rate bill are going down , course they 're not . |
| 6 | That 's nine pound twenty . |
| 7 | No that 's four door |
| 8 | Fifty nine percent of this , that 's four point five million , will be working part-time . |
| 9 | Well that 's four pound , four pound |
| 10 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 11 | So his daddy cut it down to twelve pound a fortnight , that 's six pound a week |
| 12 | And it 's more likely that the cloudier west coast will only struggle to ten celcius , that 's fifty farenheit . |
| 13 | That 's sixty love . |
| 14 | for that sa it 's four er er that 's fourteen pound a month , the difference |
| 15 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 16 | We 're here , they 're there ; that 's one drawback . |
| 17 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
| 18 | That 's one skill thought about it , is n't there , there 's another idea that doing that is actually , has the opposite effect , but the only , you praise somebody , when you 're criticising , you say , well look you 've well anyway . |
| 19 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 20 | No it 's er that 's one film I 'd never seen , but I 'd like to see . |
| 21 | Right , that 's one message that comes out of it . |
| 22 | do n't pre-judge it has got ta decide , you 've got ta decide your area , that 's one north , one south . |
| 23 | Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted . |
| 24 | That 's one person I know where to find . ’ |
| 25 | Well it 's important to get his support so that 's one person that we can write to erm seek support . |
| 26 | Well , that 's one kind of civilisation ; maybe . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's one way of putting it … |
| 28 | That 's one way of describing his one man assault on the bookshops : more than a dozen volumes of aerial travel photography to date with at least seven more being worked on now , plus a wide selection of Italian magazine work in Genie Viaggi , Il Piacore , Expression and Autocapital . |
| 29 | That 's one way of doing it . |
| 30 | Well , I suppose that 's one way of putting it . |