Example sentences of "[adj] a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did this a few times before he realised the result would always be the same . |
| 2 | But council experts insist repairs will only cost half a million pounds and the toll should stay as it is . |
| 3 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 4 | Oxford United skipper Andy Melville is set to join Sunderland … in a part exchange deal with half a million pounds and Irish defender Anton Rogan coming to the Manor … |
| 5 | Some people might think I was approached by Harper Collins with a check for half a million pounds and asked to write the book — in a way I wish I had been . |
| 6 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 7 | Since 1919 , great armies of faceless conifers have stamped their way across the highlands and the lowlands , Sitka spruce now covers half a million hectares and makes up 52 per cent of conifers planted by the Forestry Commission in Scotland and Wales . |
| 8 | Within a week of launching the Oxfam Cold Front Appeal we reached our target of half a million coats and jumpers . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom has some 35,000 schools in total , with just under half a million teachers and over nine million pupils ( 1987–figures : Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 10 and 15 ) . |
| 10 | The party has lost half a million members since the fall of the old leaders under Mr Erich Honecker in the middle of October , and recent disclosures of corruption and economic mismanagement . |
| 11 | The party has lost half a million members since the fall of the old leaders under Mr Erich Honecker in the middle of October , and recent disclosures of corruption and economic mismanagement . |
| 12 | In 1971 , a new covenant was signed by over half a million men and women , committing protestants to a renewal of the covenant political ideal . |
| 13 | Defence is provided in West Germany by armed forces whose number totals close to half a million men and women . |
| 14 | Soon the Verdun army would total half a million men and 170,000 animals ; Pétain 's ravenous guns would be demanding twice and treble their previous flow of shells . |
| 15 | What decided Saad Rashid to steal half a million dollars and seek a life of exile in a country reviled by his homeland was the telephone call from his cousin 's wife . |
| 16 | In 1992/93 we planted more than half a million trees and shrubs in landscaping our stores and at Watchmoor Park in Camberley a 20 acre nature reserve was developed as part of the store development . |
| 17 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
| 18 | Money , said Constance , no longer had any relevance to the value of half a dozen eggs or a side of mutton , but had become a separate commodity for rich men to play with . |
| 19 | We were in a small courtyard into which had been crammed half a dozen hutches and garden-shed-type constructions . |
| 20 | Supposedly for American sympathizers to the Nazi cause , as far as Asa knew , they never had more than half a dozen members and he had n't met the others . |
| 21 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 22 | The phone rang half a dozen times before he answered it . |
| 23 | Reims suffered four sieges in sixty years , Épernay was pillaged half a dozen times and burnt twice . |
| 24 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 25 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 26 | We pantomimed an exchange of flowers for phone , which resulted in her crushing about half a dozen carnations and me getting the phone cord wrapped around my neck . |
| 27 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 28 | The police are now investigating and already trading standards officers have been contacted by half a dozen tenants and landlords who believe they 've lost out |
| 29 | half a dozen apples if they 're cheap |
| 30 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |