Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in or a hundred and forty nine ninety nine or whatever it was , I ca n't remember in erm Argos |
| 2 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |
| 3 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 4 | There looked to be over a pound of the delicious , translucent sweets the bag was bursting , spilling over so that a dozen or more lay scattered on the dusty floor , gleaming like diamonds through the wrappers . |
| 5 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 6 | Recent studies on some ASFV mRNAs suggest that they start a short distance ( less than a 100 bp ) upstream of the corresponding ORF ( 30-32 ) , and that they end at runs of seven or more consecutive thymidylate residues ( 7T motif ; 30 , 31 ) . |
| 7 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 8 | Do n't tell me that little toy cost you less than a hundred and twenty , Cullam . ’ |
| 9 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 10 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 11 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 12 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 13 | They had gained less than a hundred yards . |
| 14 | There was , he calculated , seldom less than a hundred miles between himself and the people he loved . |
| 15 | Carwyn pointed out Pipeline , less than a hundred yards away . |
| 16 | We were less than a hundred miles away from Adrar , and it was New Year 's Eve . |
| 17 | Less than a hundred men took part in that assault . |
| 18 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 19 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 20 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 21 | They suggest that if current trends in world population growth , industrialisation , pollution , food production and the depletion of non-renewable resources continue , then within a short space of time , perhaps less than a hundred years , economic growth will come to a halt , the industrial base of the world economy will collapse and finally after severe global recession and famine , not only will population growth fall dramatically but so will the level of population itself . |
| 22 | The plane , or the source of the dense column of smoke , was now less than a hundred feet above the water . |
| 23 | The French Revolution had begun less than a hundred years before ; the Paris Commune was only nine years away . |
| 24 | Less than a hundred miles away , in the small darkened room , the man at the screen watched the jet descend . |
| 25 | It was less than a hundred metres away , and gave us a long hard look as we stood there . |
| 26 | The money she had drawn out , emptying her account , less than a hundred pounds but better than nothing , was already in her bag . |
| 27 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 28 | Rosie Kruger was in the Rollercoaster , her favourite bar on West 43rd Street , less than a hundred yards away from the heart of Times Square . |
| 29 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 30 | Outremer — " the land beyond the sea " — was on the verge of extinction , less than a hundred years alter the men of the First Crusade had called it into life . |