Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 2 | For a hundred days the issues had to be argued out in front of a High Court judge , Mr Justice Parker . |
| 3 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 4 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 5 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |
| 6 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
| 7 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 8 | One year a jewel of a kid called Seamus said that maybe in a hundred years the Africans will still remember and they 'll have an African Republican Army . |
| 9 | In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density . |
| 10 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 : |