Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	We got about a hundred napkins upstairs .
2	It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more .
3	Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds .
4	Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied .
5	And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years .
6	It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of .
7	‘ Your múmia looks like a million dollars , too . ’
8	‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen .
9	Finally the head roared ‘ Time 's past ’ , whereupon it fell to the floor with a tremendous noise and shattered into a thousand pieces .
10	The lights are like smashed glass — all shattered into a million bits .
11	Close to the primer , the sequence starts with a 25 units track of the repeat T 2 AG 3 , followed by the Tetrahymena T 2 G 4 telomeric sequence .
12	The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell .
13	Crooked stove-pipe chimneys sprouted from a hundred roofs , and families could be seen talking animatedly in rows of caravan windows .
14	Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled .
15	James Fanshawe 's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six lengths win from Absalom 's Pillar .
16	Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’
17	Lane 1 , Hind III digested λ DNA ( 0.2 µg ) ; lane 2 and 6 , Bam HI- Pst I digested pPYACRC5 DNA ( 0.5 ng ) , ( lane 6 corresponds to a 10 times shorter exposure to autoradiography ) ; lanes 3 to 5 , PstI digested DNA ( 1 µg ) from three unstable pPYACRC5 transformants .
18	In contrast European nations have allowed contracting companies to keep their R&D findings secret from other companies ; with this kind of practice occurring across a dozen nations , European defence R&D is often wasted as well as fragmented .
19	Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours .
20	‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor :
21	‘ I was attacked by a dozen vagabonds two miles from here .
22	‘ I could think of a million things .
23	I ca n't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void .
24	I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own .
25	If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently .
26	We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’
27	He longed to see him again , to talk about a thousand things .
28	Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ?
29	Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been .
30	‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’

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