Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives tackling a sixty seven percent rise in burglaries in the last year want nine nine nine calls from anyone who has the slightest suspicion that something somewhere is not quite right . |
| 2 | Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape . |
| 3 | If I found you 'd won a hundred thousand pound I 'd kidnap you ! |
| 4 | A couple who make medieval musical instruments have just won a fifty thousand pound order from the Far East . |
| 5 | A company which makes diesel engines has won a seven million pound contract to supply the United States Military . |
| 6 | No but I would I thought wow , I 've won a hundred you 've won a twenty one P packet of Walkers Crisps . |
| 7 | It cost a mere eight pounds a week to rent . |
| 8 | You will then need a further five minutes to look through the application form ( or application letter or c.v. ) of the next candidate , and to remind yourself of any particular questions which need to be asked as a result of what it contained . |
| 9 | As a basic rule of thumb you 'll need a 2 1/2 ft wheelbarrow for a small garden where you are just moving light loads . |
| 10 | Situated next to the delightful city of The Hague , Floriade covers a vast 230 acres of which 168 acres are landscaped exhibition areas providing a breathtaking explosion of colour . |
| 11 | Example 5 is an arpeggio of an Asus2 chord , played with a sweep technique , that covers a full two octaves . |
| 12 | They could buy a further 41,000 tonnes . |
| 13 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 14 | So you can buy a twenty four carat gold necklace darling ! |
| 15 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
| 16 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 17 | I am thinking of purchasing a new Ninety Diesel Turbo hard top , is it possible to have it converted to take a full canvas tilt and who would undertake such a conversion ? |
| 18 | As his former team-mates undergo a torturous five days of fitness testing abroad , Hill will relax with his family before embarking on ‘ two months of hard work on my own . |
| 19 | There was also a brief but bitter controversy surrounding British allegations of torture by Gaullist officials in London ( the so-called " Dufour Affair " to which de Gaulle devoted a full four pages in his war memoirs ) . |
| 20 | Almost 200 places , in addition to those in shelters which I have mentioned , have opened this month , and we expect a further 120 places in winter shelters to open very shortly . |
| 21 | There was a heavy spate a week or two later and the river rose a good five feet higher than normal . |
| 22 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
| 23 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 24 | Ellis and Everard , the chemicals distribution group fell 16 pence to 180 pence after announcing a 29 million pound rights issue and the acquisition of 2 companies in the U S Elsewhere , S T C firmed 9 pence to 243 pence after a favourable Annual General Meeting statement . |
| 25 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 26 | He wants a hundred thousand sum assured , escalating premium with waiver of premium on the sum assured for life . |
| 27 | that wants a reliable one owner , not ex-rental sort of set , you know ? |
| 28 | I found a four six O. |
| 29 | Victim James Monday found a loaded .38 calibre handgun in his parents ' bedroom in Stockton , California . |
| 30 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |