Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 2 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 3 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 4 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 5 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 6 | He twisted his mouth through a half-dozen versions of a smile . |
| 7 | Mrs Drubb with a wedding-breakfast for a hundred guests to organize had more than enough to do . |
| 8 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 9 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 10 | After eight miles of rough driving , we reached the local highland town of Makale , and the only petrol-pump for a hundred miles . |
| 11 | Peter Mackenzie proved unusually bullish and his deep voice would reverberate throughout the dealing floor with the force of a thousand rapids : " Hallo , sir . |
| 12 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 13 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 14 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 15 | Although a veteran of a dozen movies , to many outside of Spain Banderas is still that dark-browed guy who sent Madonna scurrying to the ladies ' room in last year 's docu-melodrama In Bed With Madonna . |
| 16 | In 1831 the Rothesay Castle , a passenger-steamship bound from Liverpool to Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey foundered with the loss of a hundred men , women and children . |
| 17 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 18 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 19 | To the sleeping rhythm of a hundred hours , |
| 20 | Previously , each initiative — on advanced materials , manufacturing technology , biotechnology , high performance computing , global climate change and science education — was described in a pamphlet of a hundred pages or more that included detailed budgets of what each agency planned to spend . |
| 21 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 22 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 23 | He screwed his eyes shut , but it was as if his sight was being destroyed by the light of a thousand flares . |
| 24 | Huy looked thoughtfully out through the curtains of the litter at the night sky , bright in the silence with the light of a million stars . |
| 25 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 26 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 27 | Last year SmithKline Beecham , who make Ribena , were forced to come to a secret cash deal with a dozen families who threatened a court case claiming their children 's teeth were rotted by the so-called ‘ healthy ’ baby drink . |
| 28 | Throughout the country , mileage restrictions on operational vehicles and on essential users include the following : ’ in the north west of the County , an area 20 miles across , was patrolled by an Area car with a 40 miles allocation for an 8 hour tour of duty ; in the conurbation the panda vehicles were restricted to 28 miles for each 8 hour shift ’ . |
| 29 | Butcher , who has been scouting for Sheffield Wednesday , turned out for their reserve side in a 2–1 Pontins League victory over Rotherham . |
| 30 | Frustrating equipment failures forced Victor and His partner Steve Sustad to abort their summit attempt on a 24,000 feet high unclimbed peak in the Karakoram last year . |