Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 32 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
| 33 | And this Mr you see , he used to have several , in the course of twelve months , they used to have several bullocks cos he used to keep perhaps , well up to eighty to a hundred bullocks a year for fat , yeah . |
| 34 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 35 | The Leeming airfield can get busy at times , so anything up to a dozen Tornados a day can visit us for refuelling . |
| 36 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 37 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 38 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 39 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 40 | on a ten pounds a week , it 's nonsense . |
| 41 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
| 42 | You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first . |
| 43 | There we walked through the Green Dragon to the force , at a hundred feet the longest unbroken waterfall in England , and known to freeze into a massive ice tube in winter — Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited the spot and were impressed by its grandeur , so much so that William , ever the florid poet , wrote ebulliently to Coleridge , describing the visit : |
| 44 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 45 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
| 46 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 47 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 48 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
| 49 | It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon . |
| 50 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 51 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 52 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |