Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 2 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 3 | ‘ But we are lucky to have her — she was given only a 50:50 chance of survival when she was born . ’ |
| 4 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 5 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 9 | Central defender Vince Overson has only a 5050 chance of being fit . |
| 10 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 11 | Officers pursued nearly a hundred people who were seen chasing deer , badgers , foxes and hares across South Oxfordshire and Berkshire . |
| 12 | Society of Antiquaries ( London ) The Society ( founded in 1701 ) has nearly a thousand manuscripts dating from 1100 onwards , representing every branch of antiquarian studies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The public have written thirty letters , representing about a thousand people , living in all corners of have written and recommended refusal . |
| 15 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The car parked about a hundred yards from the loch and two men , clad in town clothes , got out and ambled over : ‘ Any luck ? ’ they inquired . |
| 20 | Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words . |
| 21 | By 1978 , 1500 such villages had been created incorporating about a million people . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 23 | Trinidad , which now has around a million inhabitants , has also produced far more than its fair share , and it is interesting to note the differences between the two . |
| 24 | This was first published in 1968 , is still in print — and has over a hundred illustrations . |
| 25 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 26 | Brockworth School in Gloucestershire has over a thousand pupils and the numbers are rising . |
| 27 | Brockworth School in Gloucestershire has over a thousand pupils and the numbers are rising . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers ' ( APIL ) database contains over a thousand experts who have been recommended by APIL members around the country . |
| 29 | In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives . |
| 30 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |