Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would you have felt if someone with a hundred times your experience had tried to buy into one of your early ventures ? ’ |
| 2 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 3 | Lot number ninety Lot number ninety , the horn box the horn box and cover is showing for you for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds any more at one hundred pounds ? |
| 4 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |
| 5 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 6 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 7 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
| 8 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 9 | And from that day to this , no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden , for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks , the best in the world . " |
| 10 | The only artist I know that brings to mind that I think is absolutely brilliant is David Sheppard , You got a print on his works and its only one of a hundred prints , and even his prints are worth about a thousand pounds . |
| 11 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 12 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 13 | They handled something something like a thousand pounds worth of cars that |
| 14 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 15 | At some point in the future there many be another move , but there must be something like a five times price/performance advantage before people will move to another standard platform . |
| 16 | If we embrace in our calculation those civilizations that had radio technology 1,000 years ago , there will be something like a million stars within radio range ( together with however many planets circle round each one of them ! . |
| 17 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 18 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 19 | The draw is everything in a 200 metres indoor race . |
| 20 | The rate of propagation varies from one to a hundred metres per second , depending on the diameter of the axon . |
| 21 | Will you remember me in a million years ? |
| 22 | You could cut me in a thousand pieces and lay them out on the street . |
| 23 | Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry . |
| 24 | Calapaez rewarded her with a seven lengths win over Homme d'Affaire . |
| 25 | Eventually the tears dried up , but still she did n't move , lying there listlessly , feeling so brittle that it seemed the smallest of movements would scatter her into a thousand pieces . |
| 26 | In her present fragile state , an inquisition , no matter how well-intentioned , would have shattered her into a million pieces . |
| 27 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 28 | Ye 'd never have got it out of him in a million years . |
| 29 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 30 | I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material . |