Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 2 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 3 | And now it 's possible to put the equivalent of a million components on one single chip . |
| 4 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 5 | RUPERT Murdoch and Reed International yesterday resumed their battle to carve up a large slice of America 's publishing industry between them , by spending more than three-quarters of a billion dollars on two major companies . |
| 6 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 7 | Ermine negligées ; bath in milk , numerous underpanties , chemises and other intimate items , all of which look like a million dollars on the svelte Ralston figure , just round enough . ’ |
| 8 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 9 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 10 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 11 | Thin beads of light were pulsing from a dozen locations on the convoluted spiral arms of the space station . |
| 12 | The East German leadership 's dilemma was underlined by mass demonstrations in a dozen cities on Monday night and the continuing flight of young East Germans yesterday through Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |