Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 2 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 3 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 4 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 5 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 6 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 7 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 8 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 9 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 10 | They stepped through , into another world ; a world of ancient delights , of strict order made to seem like casual occurrence , of a thousand shades of green contrasted against the grey of stone , the white of walls , the red of tile . |
| 11 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 12 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 13 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 14 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 15 | ‘ Read My Lips ’ , released under the name of A Thousand Points Of Light , highlights Bush switching political positions and contradicting himself . |
| 16 | I ca n't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void . |
| 17 | In the 1930s accommodation consisted of a thousand beds in twelve hotels . |
| 18 | In oriental rugs , every knot — which corresponds to two individual strands of pile — is tied by hand , and a skilled weaver can tie something in the region of a thousand knots per hour . |
| 19 | Not even the dehumanizing process of Soviet medical training could eradicate the myths and legends of a thousand years of Russian Christianity . |
| 20 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 21 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 22 | Lot number thirty two Lot thirty two , the lacquer brushes there we are , there 's the lacquer brushes , I 've got two offers of a hundred pounds for them one hundred pounds in two places , at one hundred and ten , one twenty , thirty , forty going on ? |
| 23 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 24 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 25 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 26 | Particularly when when the City Council themselves are promoting in the region of a hundred hectares of of development adjacent to the A one well well outside the city . |
| 27 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 28 | He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ . |
| 29 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 30 | And the machine did have bowels — she could smell them : a dark , rancid odour comprising the spilled residue of a hundred types of food . |