Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [num] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 2 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 3 | Let's say I 'm , I 'm going , I give you this question , I want to find a hundred and one times twenty six , right ? |
| 4 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 5 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 6 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 7 | the West Midlands has hauled a seven and a half ton truck from Great Ormond Street hospital to Birmingham Children 's Hospital to raise money . |
| 8 | It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession . |
| 9 | Denis Smith says that Phil is a good professional and has signed a two and half year contract and hopefully will be at the club a lot longer |
| 10 | Scientists have discovered a possible dinosaur nesting area , and an egg which has survived a hundred and forty five million years intact . |
| 11 | And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven . |
| 12 | The King of Saudi Arabia has donated a hundred and fifty thousand pounds to Laura Davies , the four-year-old girl who needs a bowel and liver transplant to save her life . |
| 13 | Okay let's , let's have another little look at brackets let's try multiplying say a hundred and one by twenty three . |
| 14 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 15 | If they do n't , they say they 'll have to sack a hundred and fifty teachers , although one MP says they should sack council staff instead . |
| 16 | So to calculate a hundred and twenty percent of amount to calculate a hundred and twenty percent of an amount you multiply by one point two . |
| 17 | Erm for example , I have been involved in a site in North Yorkshire , er where it is proposed to build a hundred and sixty houses in Tadcaster . |
| 18 | You just put them into the formula , ad them up and then you do your Well let's say fifty eight fifty eight tonnes of H C L gives say a hundred and twenty tonnes of N A C L. |
| 19 | The government are about to announce er at Templebury in Rotherham a three point seven five million pounds project which I a actually support er made by English Estates that project is estimated to create a hundred and seventy five jobs . |
| 20 | She did have a thousand and one things to do , though there was n't a single one of them that could n't have waited . |
| 21 | For the news programmes , this means finding a thousand and one different ways of making bricks without straw . |
| 22 | Because if you achieve a hundred percent of what 's in your plan , there 's always a danger that they could 've achieved a hundred and ten percent of what was in your plan and have n't been working hard . |
| 23 | You 're unemployed I would n't have thought you could 've stood a hundred and fifty , two hundred pounds withdrawal . |
| 24 | Yeah , we with this been ongoing , we 've given a hundred and fifty pounds to it , erm , well I say I do n't see it on the top one . |
| 25 | cos he he does do a hundred and one jobs . |
| 26 | he said and in all my years of surgery I 've done a hundred and odd drainages and that is the biggest |
| 27 | I 've done a hundred and twenty thousand |
| 28 | You 've got a hundred and forty three X over X plus two , have n't you ? |
| 29 | just just just finished no more course work the last course work I 'm ever going to do , she says Erm I 've got a hundred and twenty pieces you can help me mark . . |
| 30 | We 've got a hundred and ninety plants . |