Example sentences of "[verb] a [num] [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 | If I found you 'd won a hundred thousand pound I 'd kidnap you ! |
3 | A couple who make medieval musical instruments have just won a fifty thousand pound order from the Far East . |
4 | A company which makes diesel engines has won a seven million pound contract to supply the United States Military . |
5 | No but I would I thought wow , I 've won a hundred you 've won a twenty one P packet of Walkers Crisps . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | So you can buy a twenty four carat gold necklace darling ! |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He wants a hundred thousand sum assured , escalating premium with waiver of premium on the sum assured for life . |
10 | I found a four six O. |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Erm you earn commission by taking clients who might spend say a hundred thousand pounds on business travel , whether it be flights trains |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Two new witnesses came forward earlier this year , and police say a thirty seven year old man is now being questioned . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | 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 . |
20 | So one guy caught a twenty eight pounder like . |
21 | Ian was driving a six hundred CC motorbike , with his brother Mark as pillion passenger . |
22 | David Jenkinson has a two thousand acre farm near Cirencester . |
23 | The government has a fifty billion pound deficit and so taxation must be increased in the short term . |
24 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
25 | The health centre has a 12 000 practice population . |
26 | Alfred 's salary is eighty thousand four hundred and twenty pounds and Alberta 's is seven thousand a hundred and eighty four Alfred has a twenty two percent increase and Alberta a thirty eighty percent increase who earns more after all this ? |
27 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |
28 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
29 | For example , what might apply erm on a one year old vehicle that 's done ten thousand miles , might not apply on a vehicle that 's done a hundred thousand miles and is ten years old . |
30 | Yes I put a twenty four pence one on and a two pence one . |