Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | on a victim of a thousand jokes and petty crimes |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 10 | The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 13 | It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |
| 17 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 18 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 19 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 20 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 21 | I ca n't help thinking about a hundred films and plays , where the couple smoke afterwards . |
| 22 | It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of . |
| 23 | Father Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters and pro-life campaigners . |
| 24 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 25 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 26 | A picture is worth a thousand words and a single graph can often lead to a rule of thumb . |
| 27 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 28 | A tank filled with a thousand locusts and five scorpions is intriguing visitors to a museum . |
| 29 | Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on . |
| 30 | As a result , its fields are competitive with a dozen men and women hoping to win the $25,000 first prize , and if not , go away with at least a little piece of the $160,000 prize money . |