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

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1 All guests of Amsterdam Travel Service staying for four nights or more are invited for a welcome drink & a three course dinner ( drinks with meal are extra ) in one of the Karena Hotel restaurants in Amsterdam .
2 Negotiations dragging on where there is apparently little separating the two sides ( quite likely in the case of job evaluation where a five point difference in a grade boundary might represent hundreds of posts ) can lead to accusations of bad faith and a potentially dangerous deterioration in the general climate of industrial relations .
3 We explored the intricate channels of the Sound of Harris ( in the days before it was buoyed ) , and poked our bows under the awful cliffs of Mingulay near Barra Head , where a thousand seabirds clamour and the sun is shut out at noon .
4 That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen .
5 We 've actually got a situation outside where I live where a thirty mile an hour speed limit is erm finishes just in front of some of the houses and of course we 've got no access to their the gardens so we just park on the road .
6 The ‘ ordinary ’ on this day was Adel War Memorial Hall , where a three course lunch awaited .
7 Now what is to stop , instead of an old age pensioner getting on , with their ticket , or a thirty pound annual ticket or their quarter quarterly ticket .
8 Whether parallel forms or a split-half method is used , the agreement between the scores is used as a basis for an overall measure of agreement .
9 So it 's a half amp so what sized fu and they would probably give you erm , are you going to use a three amp , a five amp or a fif or a thirteen amp fuse ?
10 He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious .
11 The Kristall is about a 30 minute walk from the lake , and a 45 minute stroll or a 5 minutes bus journey will bring you to Zell am See town centre .
12 Bingham must get it right for a match I feel we can get a 0–0 draw or a 1–0 win out of — yes , I 'm serious !
13 So anyone who 's putting up a lot of their own money is untrustworthy and there should be limitation on how much people can stand , erm Mill actually goes into some figures at this point and rather quaintly says erm either fifty pounds or a hundred pounds ought to be adequate and I do n't know what that translates to now .
14 Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time .
15 I got back from Colchester the day we were so she said , looked at it , is a ten pounds or a hundred pounds .
16 So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that .
17 Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants .
18 or a hundred times , or kissed it
19 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 .
20 rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ?
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 James Kugel was entirely right in asserting , as against a crude popularization of Lowthian parallelism , that " Biblical parallelism is of one sort … or a hundred sorts ; but it is not three " .
24 Fifty or a hundred quid a lorry depending on the load . ’
25 or a hundred horsepower .
26 There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows .
27 We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety
28 Proponents of epigenesis could only invoke a ‘ master-builder ’ within the embryo , or a vis vitalis .
29 All I know is that probably during the course of the year something will happen and I might have to chip in you know , a thousand pounds or a million pounds or whatever , but I do n't know how much it 's going to be .
30 There was a rustling from the long grass down the hill — yes , it was the path I came up yesterday ( was it only yesterday — or a million years ago ? ) and Vern reappeared out of the undergrowth .
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