Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Margaret Godwin , the head teacher , has used the collection of writing slates , a globe , handbell , desks and inkwells to recreate a Standard Two Victorian classroom in which 40 pupils can experience teaching methods of a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 3 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 4 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 5 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 6 | The 40-acre iron works was demolished just after the war and threequarters of a million bricks were reclaimed , but their legacy lingered on with Slag Tip Corner by the notoriously low railway bridge . |
| 7 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 8 | The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map . |
| 9 | The windows were black with night , but sheeted with the reflections of a thousand candles sparkling on ten thousand jewels . |
| 10 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 11 | Then , you 'll meet native Ontarians of a thousand years standing . |
| 12 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 13 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 14 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 15 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 16 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) , with a more than three quarters of a million members , has grown by over 40 per cent since the end of last year . |
| 17 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 18 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 19 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 20 | A local farmer is seeking nearly three quarters of a million pounds in compensation . |
| 21 | Repairs will cost three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 22 | Forced Sales of players like Paul Simpson and Lee Nogan for three quarters of a million pounds simply to keep the club alive have become a neccessity . |
| 23 | News just in Swindon Town striker Duncan Shearer has signed for Blackburn Rovers for three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 24 | But now farmer Jeremy Chamberlayne has spent three quarters of a million pounds turning the cattle yards into offices : |
| 25 | For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 26 | They 'll cost around three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 27 | He 's alleged to have smuggled three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain , concealed in a lorry load of pot plants . |
| 28 | A florist has been convicted of smuggling three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain . |
| 29 | Three quarters of a million pounds |
| 30 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |