Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopkins advised against sending reclaimed prostitutes into domestic service because of the danger to middle-class sons : ‘ better a thousand times that this fearful social evil should be localized in certain spots , which we call dens , than by our hasty and injudicious benevolence it should be struck into the very bosom of our families . ’ |
| 2 | Even if we did , we have no divers aboard — well , you and myself apart — trained to work at levels below a hundred feet . |
| 3 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 4 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 5 | There was considerable destruction in Afghanistan itself : between a quarter and a fifth of the population became refugees , perhaps a million Afghans died , and a series of civil and military objects including roads , bridges and airfields were destroyed . |
| 6 | Perhaps a thousand times more evil . |
| 7 | The platform was dead black — an ovoid perhaps a hundred metres long by fifty in circumference . |
| 8 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |
| 9 | The hamlet I live in consists of thirty houses and perhaps a hundred souls and sits immediately astride the River Itchen . |
| 10 | After half an hour , flesh-pink dunes , perhaps a hundred feet high , appeared several miles ahead . |
| 11 | Perhaps a hundred skeletons ? |
| 12 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 13 | They were in a village of perhaps a dozen houses and a white log church , out on a plain somewhere under a big , big sky ; each building stood well apart from its neighbours with just open common land between them , and the grass on that common land was deep and uncut . |
| 14 | He has purchased Freud 's production from the last eighteen months , perhaps a dozen canvases , including several pictures of considerable scale , the subjects of which are nude female figures and portraits of performance artist , Leigh Bowery . |
| 15 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 16 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 17 | Horse-drawn Corporation open-sided dust carts and perhaps a dozen men were brought into action and , after disposal of the worst of the refuse , the surface was well hosed . |
| 18 | Assuming a three-course rotation , it implies 7 — 8 acres arable plus meadow and grazing ( or common rights ) , making a farm of perhaps a dozen acres — bigger if ‘ corn ’ meant only the cereal crop . |
| 19 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 20 | So a hundred times twenty is twenty hundred , a hundred times seven will gives us what ? |
| 21 | So a three times two |
| 22 | Well , right , erm so a three bars of chocolate , there 's one in the hundred grams , will cost you twenty eight pence . |
| 23 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 24 | He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away . |
| 25 | However it is only a six months trial so I am told , so come on residents of Albert Hill catch that bus and keep the service going . |
| 26 | It responded slowly , now only a hundred feet below the Ilyushin . |
| 27 | The pilots in the airliner above were unaware of the drama being enacted only a hundred feet below them . |
| 28 | ‘ I buy two ounces and I save only a hundred pounds . |
| 29 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 30 | That 's harmless when it 's first passed on , but which , in only a hundred generations , evolves into a deadly virus . |