Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A clay cutter who earned 10s ( 50p ) a week , to which was added a further 5s 6d ( 27½p ) from his two teenage sons , still needed some supplementation as he had three young daughters to support . |
| 32 | By the Spring of 1992 the IHM expects to have added a further six helicopters to the collection , including a Kaman HH–43 Huskie and at least two Russian types , bringing the total fleet list to over sixty rotary winged aircraft . |
| 33 | A recommended density of 136 persons per acre ( up to 200 in parts ) would involve the decentralization of 618,000 people , to which would be added a further 415,000 people for decanting from overcrowded places outside the LCC , giving a total of 1,033,000 in all . |
| 34 | Way lifted his battered body from the treatment table to finish just three shots behind South African pace-setter Palmer , who stroked a glorious seven-under par 63 . |
| 35 | But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example . |
| 36 | Erm you earn commission by taking clients who might spend say a hundred thousand pounds on business travel , whether it be flights trains |
| 37 | And the outside with er they say say a hundred thousand tops for er including getting a a kiosk made up to a a food bar . |
| 38 | Most people prefer to collect their armies in blocks of a thousand or five hundred points , starting with say a one thousand point core force and adding five hundred points at a time . |
| 39 | Two new witnesses came forward earlier this year , and police say a thirty seven year old man is now being questioned . |
| 40 | And there 's a lo there 's a whole industry built up about inheritance tax planning where you actually write something in trust for your dependents , and er that 's simple in that if you 're in good health now , you can write say a twenty thousand pounds inheritance tax cover , under trust for your children so that 's paid outside the estate , it does n't make the matters worse , and mo most conveniently at retirement it 's simple to do because you might pay it on an annual premium or a regular monthly premium , and it might cost you twenty or thirty pounds a month , but at least you can forget it then . |
| 41 | Mr do you want to have a ten minute break while you consider this question of whether you would be prepared to advise the panel that you would be a you would accept an amendment to the key diagram to show one star or what ever it is you have used on the key diagram to indicate A fifty nine relief road proposal ? |
| 42 | Boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ We have two home games after Southampton and it gives us a great chance to cement a top six place . ’ |
| 43 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 44 | Only in the ‘ Most Weeks At Number One ’ do the foursome get the shove , Elvis Presley notching a tidy 79 weeks at the top , in all , against The Beatles ' 59 . |
| 45 | And finally , a local furniture project , are opening a new twelve bed hostel for young people who are homeless . |
| 46 | London and Liverpool continued to build flats and from 1933 ( when the Act became widely operative ) many cities built a few hundred flats in large estates : by 1939 Newcastle had built 500 , Leeds nearly 1,000 , Liverpool over 5,000 and Manchester 9,000 ( Ravetz , 1974a ) . |
| 47 | Scotland 's success rate at Twickenham has been as elusive as the Chancellor 's green shoots of recovery : in 35 visits since 1911 , the Scots have enjoyed a mere four victories , with five matches drawn . |
| 48 | The fenestral discovery , incidentally , also filled in a missing link to provide a 300 million year sequence of fossils showing a smooth evolution from reptiles to mammals . |
| 49 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 50 | Fig 3 illustrates a typical three octave fingering of this scale , which should be played using alternate picking throughout . |
| 51 | They , and the schools we went to , helped preserve a brown Fifties environment all through our early years . |
| 52 | I was glad when that was over and swam a further four lengths to unwind . |
| 53 | So one guy caught a twenty eight pounder like . |
| 54 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 55 | We created a revolutionary 24 valve , 3 litre V6 engine with a variable length inlet manifold , enabling the engine to breathe deeper as it goes faster . |
| 56 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 57 | Ian was driving a six hundred CC motorbike , with his brother Mark as pillion passenger . |
| 58 | If he did , he would have to abandon the Volvo , always parked a few hundred yards away , and escape on foot . |
| 59 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 60 | At 75 per cent you see 124 mph , yet flat-out only adds a further 4 mph . |