Example sentences of "[n mass] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many years ago , with income tax ranging up to 98% , and death duties on legacies as much as 75% a testator 's family was allowed to retain only 0.5% of the fruits of his labour . |
| 2 | It worked out at the 10s 0d a week 7pension . |
| 3 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 4 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 5 | Out of that I had to find , threepence a day erm bus fare . |
| 6 | twenty five grand a year an and you 're sat at that desk and you 're boss ? |