Example sentences of "[verb] a [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 2 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
| 3 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 4 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |
| 5 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 6 | The engines said to Truro , he was first to go a hundred miles an hour . |
| 7 | His reported reaction was that if his order could answer a hundred heretics a year , they would not be beaten by one Catholic . |
| 8 | The company is the largest builder of motorcaravans in Britain , producing a thousand vehicles a year at its Cotswold factory . |
| 9 | Since he could command a thousand guineas a time , he was well able to afford such a residence . |
| 10 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 11 | My brother does a paper round and delivers a hundred newspapers every morning |
| 12 | I get a dozen scripts a week like that . |
| 13 | Myself , I get a dozen invitations a year … |
| 14 | It 's expensive , the habit can cost a thousand pounds a week . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you told me you 'd be getting a hundred guineas a time if you were a television personality , John ? ’ said Bob . |
| 16 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 17 | Suddenly there was Anna doing a hundred things a day : the house wide open , parties and picnics and streams of presents . |
| 18 | Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour . |
| 19 | So doing a hundred miles an hour . |
| 20 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
| 21 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 22 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 23 | Now the Meningitis Trust has a turnover approaching a million pounds a year , a full-time staff of 16 , and trials begin in Gloucestershire next year on additional vaccines . |
| 24 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 25 | A man in Canada wrote to say he had heard of the problem and was going to send a hundred dollars every month . |
| 26 | Now it attracts a million visitors a year . |
| 27 | The stretch of beach attracts a million visitors a year and wardens collect an average of two tons of litter each day . |
| 28 | Oh it did n't look like it was making a hundred miles an hour anyway |
| 29 | I 'm not making a million dollars a performance , but I do damn well , and I do n't think people should make a million dollars for a film . |
| 30 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |