Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
| 2 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 3 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 4 | ‘ But we are lucky to have her — she was given only a 50:50 chance of survival when she was born . ’ |
| 5 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 6 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 7 | The festival is good for the economy , bringing in a million pounds to the area . |
| 8 | I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob . |
| 9 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 10 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 11 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 12 | Central defender Vince Overson has only a 5050 chance of being fit . |
| 13 | No-one can predict with any degree of certainty how interest rates will rise and fall over a 5 year period . |
| 14 | How do you know like an eighteen year old is someone responsible |
| 15 | McClure was in his usual brilliant form opening up a 7-1 lead after five ends and then extending that to 14-3 at the halfway stage . |
| 16 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 17 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach . |
| 19 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 20 | Tom Cox and Lee Grant also scored as Colts built up a 6–0 lead . |
| 21 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 22 | Officers pursued nearly a hundred people who were seen chasing deer , badgers , foxes and hares across South Oxfordshire and Berkshire . |
| 23 | Society of Antiquaries ( London ) The Society ( founded in 1701 ) has nearly a thousand manuscripts dating from 1100 onwards , representing every branch of antiquarian studies . |
| 24 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 25 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 26 | The public have written thirty letters , representing about a thousand people , living in all corners of have written and recommended refusal . |
| 27 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 28 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 29 | According to the Times , First Peson is to be headed by Rosing , has about a dozen employees , and is presently in process of moving into new premises in Palo Alto . |
| 30 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |