Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example . |
| 2 | He was back to his best after a series of poor displays and scored a goal as he inspired Lazio to come back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw . |
| 3 | The 28-year-old Merseysider battled back from 2-0 down to finish a 5-3 victor over Thailand 's James Wattana . |
| 4 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 5 | The tussle could hardly have been more evenly-matched as Drake and partner Jonathan Smith fought back from a set down to take a 6–7 6–3 7–6 victory in a rubber which featured only three service breaks ! |
| 6 | Erm this gives an average over say a five year period of about a hundred and forty nine dwellings per annum , if you if you divide that by the household er estimate of something like two point five household size , which is the current sort of level in Cleveland . |
| 7 | And what happened in practice was simply the Turkish government made representations to the State Department and said hey , you know , these bases , they provide a lot of work , you know , we have to provide empl alternative employment for these people so could we phase out this withdrawal over say a three year programme ? |
| 8 | In a sense , the Jury 's still out on the Times cos you 'd have to look at it over say a three of four month period . |
| 9 | Swansea took over following a 14–0 win at home to Newport , as Stuart Davies celebrated his call-up to the Wales squad with a try , but were replaced the following week by a determined Pontypool . |
| 10 | Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine . |
| 11 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 12 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 13 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 14 | Portsmouth AC member Pete Tann went on a roach fishing trip to the Hampshire Avon at Fordingbridge and ended up banking a 23 ob pike . |
| 15 | But it was n't to be : he knocked the putt by about 3 feet and then pulled the one coming back wide and finished up shooting a 63 . |
| 16 | American Trust , after a poor first half , has bounced back to report a 26 per cent leap in net asset value per share for the full year to 265.2p , from last year 's 210.3p . |
| 17 | Well , you 'll have nine bulbs and lights out got a thousand to do Ann 's had |
| 18 | The same process should be carried out using a 3 × 2 grid . |
| 19 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 20 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 21 | John Darby hit 63 not out clinching a nine wicket win for the Colliery men by 5.30pm with a six . |
| 22 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 23 | Wood led twice , 1-0 and 2-1 , before Biggs hit back to snatch a 1-7 , 7-5 , 6-7 , 7-2 , 7-6 win in Preston . |
| 24 | Over the next 13 years , the regulations set out to achieve a 70 per cent cut in hydrocarbon emissions . |
| 25 | Couples went on to score a six under par 66 , and with partner Davis Love shooting 68 , the favourites finished the day on the 10 under par total of 134 . |
| 26 | History does not relate whether Geoffrey also went on to score a hundred , with his golf clubs . |
| 27 | and my er feeling is that under say a hundred and fifty thousand , that y that you 're going to find the charges are quite heavy , because it 's not a group investment , it 's an individual investment . |
| 28 | One company , Asansiki , a subsidiary of Toyota , is building a fourteen hundred square foot building on the campus , and an international high technology company is about to build a ten thousand square foot building . |
| 29 | A land where 17 per cent tax is put on fuel and dressed up as Britain 's contribution to ‘ green ’ objectives , where a national lottery is about to yield a 12 per cent rake-off for the Exchequer , where charities are booming , blessed with a Budget tax bonus of £30 million a year and where a job in future may actually mean ‘ community service ’ . |