Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malaria ; a disease that annually kills a million children . |
| 2 | I broke my leg in training and I only played a dozen games undefeated , mind you ! |
| 3 | The man only painted a dozen pictures . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've — I 've only got a hundred pounds in traveller 's cheques . |
| 5 | It only costs a thousand pounds to get me |
| 6 | Enough to satisfy a dozen fellows like him . |
| 7 | So doing a hundred miles an hour . |
| 8 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 9 | You can only get a hundred pounds for it . |
| 10 | Our expert tasters , the million cuppa men — they 've all drunk a million cups of tea — go up the northbound carriageway and down the south and assess all on their qualities . |
| 11 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 12 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 13 | No , no , no , we only need a hundred sheets an hour |
| 14 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 15 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 16 | I 've already done a hundred miles , where 's the other Ne Well he said Well actually it 's in Wales , and I thought Oh no ! |
| 17 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 18 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 19 | But that might have left you , the reader , with an empty feeling — like you had just eaten a dozen vol-au-vents when it was actually a three-course meal that you ordered . |
| 20 | I 'm not making a million dollars a performance , but I do damn well , and I do n't think people should make a million dollars for a film . |
| 21 | ‘ Not i' a thousand years . |
| 22 | And erm well let's , let's , let's just say a hundred watts is a hundred electrons per second . |
| 23 | Robyn tried not to care , tried not to feel a million times worse just from seeing the clearly disdainful expression , but it was impossible . |
| 24 | Like send a hundred ships full of men and munitions to help the bastards , Edward thought . |
| 25 | His view was that Hollywood could never make such a picture ‘ simply because in all America you could hardly collect a hundred actors and put them in a picture and keep them from acting ’ . |
| 26 | He can still smell a million dollars when it 's within reach . |
| 27 | I hardly know a dozen words . ’ |
| 28 | However , in half-anticipation , I 'd calculated that after the one hour twenty flight from Porto we would still have a two hours forty endurance at 75 per cent cruise for the return flight to Porto in order to clear Customs back into Spain . |
| 29 | I 've worked with better material than you , but it 's either that or — have you ever spent a million years in a coal measure ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And each bite probably contained a thousand calories . ’ |