Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 2 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 4 | They 've already won a two man bobsleigh . |
| 5 | One of Britain 's oldest breweries has won a two month battle against a hostile takeover bid . |
| 6 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 7 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 8 | Seeq Technology Inc , Fremont , California has won a six month extension of its $5m bank-credit agreement with Silicon Valley Bank ; the agreement expired on February 15 and now matures on September 30 . |
| 9 | Cincinnati , Ohio-based Cincom Systems Inc has won a five year , $10m contract to supply its local area network database software , Supra Server , to the US Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Commercial Communications Offices . |
| 10 | Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems Inc has won a five year , $10m contract to supply its LAN database , Supra Server , to the US Defense Information Systems Agency ( DISA ) and the Defense Commercial Communications Offices . |
| 11 | The parents of a girl who was severely handicapped after being starved of oxygen at birth have won a five year battle for compensation . |
| 12 | But the British Government , unconvinced the fastest bikes are more dangerous , has won a five year exemption and an EC Commission promise to produce road safety evidence before Britain will come into line . |
| 13 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 14 | The Department of Accountancy and Finance , in conjunction with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland , has recently won a 3 year British Council Know-How funded project based in St Petersburg , aimed at retraining accounting practitioners and teachers in accounting methods in a market-led economy . |
| 15 | When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist . |
| 16 | Such Maoisms as ‘ Let a hundred flowers bloom ’ and ‘ Imperialism is a paper tiger ’ were anathema to Khrushchev . |
| 17 | Motor deal : Sanderson Townend & Gilbert has let a 980 sq ft shop at 146 High Street Redcar to Motor World . |
| 18 | As part of its future direction , ADDS previewed a 3270/X software package for migrating 3270 users to NCR 's Open Cooperative Computing Architecture beginning in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 19 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 20 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 21 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 22 | It has reported a 77 p.c. increase in complaints and cited pension transfer advice as one of the biggest problem areas . |
| 23 | Events so far have included a 1960s night , five-a-side football , sponsored basketball and hillwalks through Glensax and the Lairig Ghru in the Cairngorms . |
| 24 | His previous vehicles have included a 1930 Austin Swallow Mark I and a 1964 Daimler Jaguar Mark II . |
| 25 | ‘ And each bite probably contained a thousand calories . ’ |
| 26 | On the stroke of half-time , Alborne 's one-legged defender , Brown , successfully dummied the entire Whaddon back row to give Alborne a 5–0 lead at the interval . |
| 27 | My father and I have owned a 1965 Series IIA for two years . |
| 28 | Organised a seven-million guarantee . |
| 29 | Anti-hunt campaigners have presented a nine-thousand signature petition to councillors urging them to ban hunting from council owned land . |
| 30 | Football , and Oxford United manager Brian Horton has named a sixteen man squad for the vital relegation match against Peterboro tonight . |