Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ELMER WARD ‘ S Grumman G–58 Bearcat N3025 , flew for the first time after rebuild on July 27 , after a ten year and $2m restoration programme . |
| 2 | on a victim of a thousand jokes and petty crimes |
| 3 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 4 | Out there , away from the Inspirals ' tour bubble , is a land of a thousand lakes and a million fir trees , where the people drive with the headlights on in full daylight , past ‘ Moose Crossing ’ warning signs , to restaurants where you can tuck into sautéed reindeer . |
| 5 | In the Asturias a mob of a thousand peasants and university students , after pillaging the arsenal of its rifles , made an end of the hesitations of the Audiencia and the constituted authorities , who were afraid to defy Murat ; the general assembly of the province , which happened to be holding one of its triennial meetings , took the leadership of the insurrection , and , on 25 May , declared war on Napoleon . |
| 6 | The Movietone cameraman zoomed in to get a close-up of the notice being fixed in place , a glimpse for the screens of a thousand Odeons and Regals from Aberdeen to Penzance . |
| 7 | All the time we were assailed by the noise of a hundred bells and the screams of hawkers and traders who sold everything from a piece of iron to hot chestnuts . |
| 8 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 9 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 10 | No mean bat , he also scored just over 17,000 runs for the county , and did the double of a hundred wickets and a thousand runs seven times ( nine times counting all cricket ) . |
| 11 | On the whole , considering the close contact of a hundred Macleans and three hundred Campbells each itching to do down the others , politely of course , the week 's visit went off quietly . |
| 12 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 13 | By January 1944 , Fletcher had command of a B-17 bomber and a ten man crew . |
| 14 | Figures may be updated I seem to remember the fire station somewhere in the region of a million plus and the cost of running it was three hundred thousand a year . |
| 15 | Mao , on the other hand , actually presided over gatherings of a million crying and cheering devotees , before bodily and mental decline made personal enjoyment of ecstatic Red Guards screeching their devotion impossible . |
| 16 | The seller was held liable under section 13 , since the car consisted of the rear half of a 1961 car and the front half of an earlier model . |
| 17 | But the giant Czech goalkeeper is n't worried by the pressures of playing in front of a 30,000 crowd and a TV audience of two million as Kevin Keegan 's players bid to stretch their First Division lead to at least 10 points . |
| 18 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 19 | The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map . |
| 20 | And you ask us to believe that out of a dozen car-parks and hundreds of side streets you could have chosen you picked this place by chance ? |
| 21 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 22 | The closure order was prompted by the deaths of a dozen sheep and as many dogs . |
| 23 | The Tyrrell Society was just one of a dozen drinking and dining clubs at Breakspear College twenty years ago . |
| 24 | While participating in the second Rugby World Cup was a great learning experience for the United States national team ( despite a 0–3 record and being outscored 113–24 ) , for US rugby this recent World Championship was a promotional disappointment . |
| 25 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 26 | It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more . |
| 27 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 28 | Manager Lennie Lawrence is looking for a 20,000 crowd and three points against the runaway leaders . |
| 29 | Lot number one O three Lot number one O three for a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one twenty , any more at one hundred and twenty pounds , at one twen anybody else at one hundred and twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 30 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |