Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 2 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 3 | Only a thousand pounds a week , yacht included . |
| 4 | The latest results mark a milestone for Sherwood , which now claims to be Britain 's biggest sock-maker , pumping out a million pairs a week , and is a supplier to that favourite of underwear retailers , Marks & Spencer . |
| 5 | It now makes sense to join the rest of the world by paying for what we use , say experts Kent Meters in Luton , Bedfordshire , a firm which turns out a million meters a year — and sells them abroad . |
| 6 | This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun , but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 8 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
| 9 | That day , we were on Flupper doing about a million miles an hour . |
| 10 | According to UNICEF , about a million babies a year die because their mothers stop breast feeding too soon and switch to dried milk substitutes — without access to clean water for mixing . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 12 | She works in oils and , among other things , paints about a dozen portraits a year , charging £400 upwards . |
| 13 | Two hundred catalogues of the library were printed and there were about a dozen borrowers a week . |
| 14 | The original version of this machine — which Nelson eventually patented in 1955 — could cut about a dozen bars a minute : the version now in use can cut up to 400 a minute . |
| 15 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 16 | The seed planted in the good soil produced thirty , sixty and even a hundred times the original sowing . |
| 17 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 18 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
| 19 | That 's why the new podiatry surgery centre at Burghill near Hereford is seen as a success ; it 'll handle around a thousand patients a year , patients who could otherwise spend years on the waiting list . |
| 20 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 21 | Afterall a good horse will cost you a fortune to buy … and then having it trained and ridden by the best will set you back at least a thousand pounds a month … |
| 22 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 23 | Shutting it down will save the National Health Service almost a million pounds a year . |
| 24 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 25 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
| 26 | Erm put it over a hundred times the eight . |
| 27 | The All Wheel Drive Club was started for jeeps and landrovers … now the machines come in all shapes and sizes … there are over a hundred meetings a year … there 's 10 rounds of the British Safari Championship … |
| 28 | But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable . |
| 29 | He says the course is really tight and they reach speeds of over a hundred miles an hour . |
| 30 | at they come over a hundred miles an hour on some of these runs ! |