Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some point in the future there many be another move , but there must be something like a five times price/performance advantage before people will move to another standard platform . |
| 2 | And they 'll be something like a hundred quid for a single . |
| 3 | It 's estimated that by nineteen-ninety , there will be something like a hundred million components on a single chip . |
| 4 | If we embrace in our calculation those civilizations that had radio technology 1,000 years ago , there will be something like a million stars within radio range ( together with however many planets circle round each one of them ! . |
| 5 | I mean they must be one in a thousand , too , are n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | When a set comes through , which may be anything from every five to every forty minutes , the more experienced surfers will take the second or third wave of the group since these are normally the biggest . |
| 7 | No in the case of a premature retirement where there is enhancement erm that 's actually payable on the last banking day of the month so that will tend to be anything from the twenty eighth to the thirty first . |
| 8 | Empires failed on our mother planet — how much more philosophically untenable are they across a dozen , a hundred , a thousand , a thousand thousand planets ? |
| 9 | Oh no , no , no , but we moved , how long we , were we at a hundred and eleven dad ? |
| 10 | What were they like the two the maids , were they young girls ? |
| 11 | Basically the same poeple who wank on about Man Utd all the time being the biggest and best at everything — biggest Stadium ( aka sewer ) , biggest world support ( but where were they in the 1991–1992 season ? ) , best youth team ( I do n't think ) . |
| 12 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 13 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |
| 14 | And that would of been what in the fifties ? |
| 15 | ‘ You sure there 's nothing between the two of you ? ’ |
| 16 | There 's nothing between the two teams … |
| 17 | What might otherwise be a dry debate on science policy has raised a hue and cry among the American public , for the issue is which of the 70000 chemicals on the market may cause cancer . |
| 18 | I mean I know some of the , some of the more slender women , I wo n't say skinny here , what , are n't in need of a tummy tuck , but well there 's you as a twenty two Scottish women would spend two thousand pounds , what do you think of that ? |
| 19 | The draw is everything in a 200 metres indoor race . |
| 20 | In Powys , on the other hand , there is one for every 590 people . |
| 21 | Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people . |
| 22 | Yet the current proportion of civilians to soldiers in the UN-led force is one to a hundred . |
| 23 | Aldo is one in a million |
| 24 | ‘ And he 'll tell you that each of us would-be Marines is one in a million — one in a billion — except for he who sets himself above the rest of his brothers ; and that one is less . ’ |
| 25 | Is the Minister aware that three annual checks by Welsh trading standards officers discovered that as many as one in five lorries on Welsh roads are overloaded , yet the chance of being checked is one in every 5,000 journeys ? |
| 26 | Now that means that at the peak , the Communist Party has a working class membership of something like thirty thousand plus , which is one in every hundred industrial workers in China at this time . |
| 27 | In the case of Down 's Syndrome , where the birth incidence is one in every 700 births ( around 0.8 per 1000 ) , 70–80% are miscarried so the incidence at conception may be one in 200 or higher . |
| 28 | The overall rate of incidence is one in every 800 live births , which means that around seven to eight hundred Down 's babies are born every year . |
| 29 | The first is that some 600,000 debt cases ( that is , all types of unpaid debt , including rent and fuel bills as well as unmet credit obligations ) have had to be settled in court each year : that 's one for every 30 families or so . |
| 30 | Maggie 's a fine girl , Joe ; she 's one in a thousand . ’ |