Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symbolism was potent enough for a hundred generations to keep the chalk clear |
| 2 | She began a letter a month after their arrival with the words , ‘ Here we are in a large mansion , in a large park , with seventy head of deer around us ’ , before going on to describe a house which contained ‘ furniture enough for a dozen families like ours ’ . |
| 3 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 4 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 5 | Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps |
| 6 | One of the proposals to relieve traffic congestion on Buxton Road seemed to envisage — details were difficult to obtain using the trackbed of the railway line together with a 100 feet wide portion of the field to create an urban motorway . |
| 7 | So within a hundred years , man learnt to make recordings of sound with sufficient fidelity to fool the human ear — at least , sounds that did not come from several different points in space at the same time . |
| 8 | The time required to pass a barge up and or barge down in a 50 feet balance lift would be approximately say 15 minutes . |
| 9 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 10 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 11 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 12 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 13 | Between now and December , the company estimates that revenue will be down by a million pounds . |
| 14 | It did , however , enhance his prestige and set precedents which drew German and Austrian rulers southwards for a thousand years . |
| 15 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |
| 16 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 17 | ‘ I approached Mickey Duff about Wharton , but he said ‘ not for a million pounds ’ , then Nicotra demanded a ridiculous £375,000 to fight . |
| 18 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 19 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 20 | Not in a million years . |
| 21 | Not in a million years . |
| 22 | No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years . |
| 23 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 24 | Not in a million years . |
| 25 | Not in a million years , Mr. Kopek . |
| 26 | ‘ Not in a hundred years , ’ Gloria said . |
| 27 | She would , not in a hundred years , have ever thought for Tom . |
| 28 | ‘ Not in a thousand years ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That useless baggage would never make a good hostess — not in a thousand years . ’ |
| 30 | Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps … |