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

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1 yours a two litre ?
2 The figures against the broken lines correspond to the packing percentages from which a 90/10 case file has received random additions .
3 Were we opting for a single messy fish ( for which a two foot tank is probably not adequate anyway ) we might use both uplifts to increase the flow throughout the gravel .
4 The warning follows a string of incidents including one in which a five years old child burned down the family home , killing his sister , after watching cartoon characters playing with fire .
5 Thus , for each census ward for which a 1981 population total exists , it is possible to determine the number of pixels classified as a certain land-cover type .
6 The LM 1 liquid is then poured onto some poppy-seed granules of which a hundred weigh 1 grain ( 0.06gm ) .
7 An eighteen year old arsonist has been gaoled for eight years for starting a house fire in which a four year old girl lost her hand .
8 Other specialist courses are run by The Avenue Riding Centre , Malvern , Worcestershire ( Tel : 0684 310731 ) who show there 's more to Western style riding than meets the eye , and Red House Stables ( Tel : 0629 733583 ) for driving , of which a three day introductory offer is the most popular .
9 Before Christie 's first sale of Belgian art a year ago , in which a 1930s de Smet of Flemish peasants made £275,000 , the highest auction price for the artist was £18,000 .
10 and he says su its a good buy even for that says , it , you know , its a hundred years old , oh well he says it was continental , but er
11 but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period
12 The Peleus had been sunk at 7.30 p.m. ; Eck therefore had a whole night 's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn .
13 Stewart ( 31 ) will join the Glens this week and has set himself a three week target to be ready for first team action .
14 ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right .
15 ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it .
16 ‘ Thank you a thousand times , Gabriel !
17 ‘ Thank you , thank you a thousand times , ’ she said huskily .
18 ‘ Thank you a thousand times . ’
19 After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more .
20 ‘ What would you do , ’ Wexford said to his wife , ‘ if I brought a young girl home and offered you a thousand pounds to let her stay ? ’
21 It might cost you a thousand pounds if you live in a a huge detached house and in the back of building you 've got lots of rooms .
22 Even the smallest deviation can , as the Chinese say , ‘ lose you a thousand miles ’ .
23 Falstaff is forcibly returned to prose , ‘ knapp 'd o'th'coxcomb ’ by verse , and subsides to his own level : ‘ Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound ’ .
24 I give you a hundred back
25 ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet .
26 I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything .
27 if you 've got one line making you money and you 've got a hundred lines , a hundred lines is gon na make you a hundred times more , do , do you see what I mean ?
28 Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ?
29 I think it 'll you a hundred CC or a a of
30 I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen .
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