Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When you 've got a staff of a thousand you do n't need everybody going around .
2 In the case of a 286 you usually need some special hardware — an expanded memory EMS or LIM board .
3 If you had ten out of a hundred you can cancel it have you done cancelling ?
4 One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah .
5 Yes I suppose I 've had ten points behind anybody else , but erm that 's not too bad , you know , out of a hundred it 's reasonable .
6 So that 's three quarters of a million she 's paid for it then , we 're half ?
7 ‘ Well if a guitar solo is played right it can sound absolutely great , but 99 times out of a 100 they wo n't sound great and they 're a waste of time .
8 By the time we have fed the second and , thank God , final group of a dozen we are frozen .
9 You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train .
10 Well for a hundred we can get a reasonable amount .
11 Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead .
12 My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup .
13 for a sixty I 'm , I get , I end up getting er seven .
14 Still the 29-year-old could not celebrate because Anders Forsbrand closed with five straight birdies for a 65 which tied the 29-year-old Englishman on 271 .
15 Olazabal pumped his teeshot 10-feet from the hole but it was showman Ballesteros who rolled in a 20-footer for a 2 which had supporters leaping with delight .
16 Swindon Town ended their dismal run of four defeats last night with a two nil win over Tranmere .
17 Manchester United at home to Bolton were held to a goal-less first half first forty five minutes , and they had to wait until the seventy seventh minute before taking the lead through Hughes , and United go through with a one nil win .
18 But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut .
19 Newcastle went into a six nil lead thanks to two penalties from David Johnson … the cherry and whites pulled level thanks to two penalties from full-back Tim Smith … back at the other end two more kicks from Johnson took Newacstle into a half-time lead …
20 Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen .
21 ‘ They 've solved the ulcer problem for nearly everyone , but for one in a hundred it does n't work .
22 If we 're going to get over a hundred we 're going to need quite a a lot of cakes .
23 three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out .
24 Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock .
25 If you go to a thousand she 'll only have to come and do it now cos well I 've won ai n't I ?
26 This issue sees the introduction of six new CompuAdd PCs — ranging from one of the world 's most compact 286 notebook PCs , to a 486 which has just won Personal Computer World 's award for Best Power User System .
27 As world champ Wayne Rainey puts it : ‘ On a 500 you 've got no engine braking .
28 On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front .
29 Before I go on a DV I feel a bit like a private eye .
30 I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think .
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