Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it is only a six months trial so I am told , so come on residents of Albert Hill catch that bus and keep the service going . |
| 2 | Clara Mountain , already a three times course winner , is most consistent and should score again in the Hungerford Handicap Chase , while Brabazon , who declined an earlier engagement in the Philip Cornes can make fitness tell against the seasonal debutante Young Pokey in the Ramsbury Hurdle . |
| 3 | That was a great house , four acres , nearly a hundred yards frontage onto the river , super fishing . |
| 4 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 5 | Unless they 're very very careful the supporters of one member , one vote so called will create a narrow and exclusive Party , limited to those lucky people who can stump up an eighteen pounds membership fee without thinking too hard , and in the Britain of nineteen ninety three there are n't quite as many of those as perhaps we would like to see . |
| 6 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 7 | Alas , Barents got no further than Novaya Zemlja , a large island in the Russian Arctic , about a thousand kilometres east of Svalbard . |
| 8 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 9 | Out of the corner of his eye he could see Maisie , who was now about a hundred yards south of the rest of the school . |
| 10 | I wondered if the athletics department might explain why we had n't a 1500 metres runner in the final for the first time since 1960 ? |
| 11 | The disadvantage of AMS is the high cost of establishing such a facility ( around a million pounds sterling , nearly two million dollars ) and of running it . |
| 12 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 13 | Over a million pounds worth of water filtration kit , vital in the North African Desert , but being delivered ast a critical time in relations with the Libyan Government … but that 's not going to stop them . |