Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 2 | It 's got you need to write a hundred words or less what you want to be older and plans for the future . |
| 3 | And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight . |
| 4 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 5 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 6 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
| 7 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 8 | But the woman is also trying to sell a dozen letters and postcards which , she claims , Andrew sent her when he was away at sea . |
| 9 | Basis has agreed to sell a half-million dollars worth of the C++ SoftBench 3.0 and SoftBench 3.0 products on Sparc machines . |
| 10 | Thanks to Lupus 's letters and Nithard 's Histories , it is possible to identify a dozen others who threw in their lot with Charles during the difficult first months of his reign : from Francia , Counts Adalgar ( of Thérouanne ) and Egilo , and the Seneschal Adalard ( whose brother Count Gerald of Paris had defected to Lothar — perhaps the brothers had agreed to hedge their bets ) . |
| 11 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 12 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 13 | If I go to the market to buy a dozen eggs I pay the full price there and then . |
| 14 | The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God . |
| 15 | Your change of hairstyle may be a significant step in beginning to look a million dollars ! |
| 16 | So now you know how to win a million dollars . |
| 17 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
| 18 | Deputy hooker Ian Jeffery drafted in at blindside flanker typified the courageous tackling of the home team to avert a glut of scores by the visitors the County pack plying back enough possession to win a dozen games . |
| 19 | The reason for building a high mutation rate into the model is that the whole performance on the computer screen is for the benefit of human eyes , and humans have n't the patience to wait a million generations for a mutation ! |
| 20 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 21 | That bullet would be lucky to go a hundred yards , but that was not the point . |
| 22 | The engines said to Truro , he was first to go a hundred miles an hour . |
| 23 | His closeness gave her comfort , and she knew she would n't have dared to venture here alone — not even to see a thousand kiwis . |
| 24 | ‘ To see a hundred men in a circle reduced to sobs in two minutes and hear the woods echoing with the sound was extraordinary . ’ |
| 25 | Hundreds of people descended on Wallasey beach in the bright evening sunshine to see a dozen teams vie for honours in a novelty sand-building competition . |
| 26 | I like to know which players in the premier league you would pick to form a 18 men squad if you were manager of a new team . |
| 27 | So this afternoon 's news that Paul Getty is prepared to give a million pounds to help construct a building to house the mediaeval map and chained library has presented the townfolk here with yet another opportunity of keeping their heritage intact . |
| 28 | Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis . |
| 29 | And how do you react to Paul Getty out there in America agreeing to put a million pounds into the pot ? |
| 30 | These occasions are marked by much conviviality , and the temporary burying of hatchets , promises of continuing support being matched , on the part of the host , by rashly given undertakings to draw a thousand raffles . |