Example sentences of "[adv] of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This low-impact , high energy workout promises the aerobic equivalent of a seven mph run with the impact to the legs equivalent only of a three mph walk . |
| 2 | The Americans talk optimistically of a 60–90 day stint before handing over to notional , yet-to-be-sponsored , UN peacekeepers . |
| 3 | This , which is exposed at the very lowest tides , consists usually of a 300–500 m ( 1000–1600 ft ) wide surface of dead coral and debris partly cemented with encrusting algae . |
| 4 | The result was the setting up of a 16 point Green Plan . |
| 5 | Out of a million worlds , what did one matter ? |
| 6 | So the fraction will be you spend forty pence out of a hundred pence . |
| 7 | Councillor talked about er spending levels and he may be interested to know that the N U T have done a recent survey of education spending and found to be sixty first out of a hundred L E A's surveyed , so that does n't quite stack up with some of his statistics . |
| 8 | Convinced , like the even more outspoken Gustave Le Bon , that ‘ Out of a hundred Hindus educated in English schools , there are a hundred who are irreconcilable enemies of British power ’ and that the export of democratic institutions would simply be a form of national suicide , for Harmand it was the lesson of Santo Domingo that counted : the Caribbean negro slave revolt of 1795 which , ten years later , led to the surrender of a French army . |
| 9 | ninety nine out of a hundred people go out there and they they 've we 've fixed a date to start and then |
| 10 | And you would n't get a lot of heating out of a hundred electrons . |
| 11 | Tell him to build a tower out of a hundred elephants ' tusks . " |
| 12 | out of a five day course , |
| 13 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 14 | Out of a thousand cities housing billions … |
| 15 | he said well we have n't got the price for spare parts yet he said , but I do n't think we 'll get much change out of a thousand pound |
| 16 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
| 17 | There were only 18 arrests for minor public order offences out of a 40,000 crowd . |
| 18 | Parent 's of pupils at a top Gloucestershire school are being asked to bale it out of a 160,000 pound crisis . |
| 19 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 20 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 21 | The golf course proposal to be carved out of a 113 acre site at Canonteign was originally rejected by the Park Authority as being inappropriate and detrimental to the landscape . |
| 22 | Now I need four pounds and so how am I gon na get four pounds out of a ten pound note ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | A hundred years ago a ‘ piss-maker ’ was a great drinker ; to ‘ piss one 's tallow ’ meant to sweat ; a ‘ vinegar-pisser ’ was a miser ; to ‘ piss out of a dozen holes ’ was to have syphilis ; and to ‘ piss when one ca n't whistle ’ was to be hanged . |
| 25 | Charles gave them , digging the number out of a 1972 diary which was so full of useful information he 'd never managed to get rid of it . |
| 26 | Part two of the questionnaire consisted mainly of a 24 item Likert-type attitude scale developed from comments , also made by case study teachers , about SSE as a general notion ( i.e. not linked specifically to the Solihull booklet ) . |
| 27 | In fact the day before this instruction was issued to all units , 6 Armoured Division in Italy had already taken the surrender of a group headed by Gen Damjanovic of some 10,000 men describing themselves as Chetniks and Royalists , accompanied by upwards of a thousand civilians , including women and children [ KP 48 ] . |
| 28 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 29 | FCSI is reportedly trying to keep its overheads down by being run as a project within HP but it will still cost upwards of a million dollars to organise . |
| 30 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |