Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend pay particular attention to the application of a company in my constituency which requires a small amount of insurance cover that could lead to tens of millions of pounds ' worth of business ? |
| 2 | At Ashness Bridge , one of the most frequented sites in the Lakes , he helped to launch a major programme to combat the erosion caused by the pounding of millions of visitors ' feet over the years . |
| 3 | Windows can be used on an 80286 based computer , but it will operate noticeably slower and can not take advantage of one of Windows ' main characteristics — Multi-tasking . |
| 4 | Erm I I I signed over I signed over a number of thousands of pounds erm n nine years ago , eight or nine years ago with regard to the matrimonial home which Alison still lives in with my son Ben today . |
| 5 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 6 | Arthur Scargill was in no doubt that the government intended to reduce the size of the coalmining industry substantially , through a major programme of pit closures : many tens of thousands of miners ' jobs would be at risk as more and more pits were declared uneconomic , not necessarily because the coal reserves had been worked out but rather because of the perceived costs of mining them , relative to the costs of imports . |
| 7 | IT IS a rare event — in the industrialised world , at least — for a state-owned enterprise to go bust , leaving banks with billions of dollars ' worth of bad loans . |
| 8 | The Masters had been out to dinner and were well mellowed , wide awake and disposed to chat , but sitting in their quarry-tiled kitchen-diner , with thousands of pounds ' worth of elegant cabinet work and expensive machinery around him , McLeish managed to extract a coherent story . |
| 9 | Police believe they still escaped with thousands of pounds ' worth of goods . |
| 10 | They share that with thousands of working-men 's clubs throughout the country . |
| 11 | As outlined earlier , Tiger and Fox suggest that there is an innate ‘ male bonding ’ stemming from millions of years ' history and ultimately linked to a time when men co-operated in order to hunt . |
| 12 | Secondly , since women are generally lower paid than men — earning on average about three-quarters of men 's pay — they are less likely to be able to afford cars . |
| 13 | During the project there was a shift away from locating the issue as one of girls ' motivation towards attempts to change the nature of school science . |
| 14 | They would probably suggest that during millions of years ' evolution , women 's instincts have developed in such a way as to protect and nourish family and kin . |
| 15 | They would be worth one-fifth of residents ' pay and cover half the value of the goods . |
| 16 | She and Guy lived over the road , next door but one to Barbs 's house . |