Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 2 | The books of John Sparrow , deceased warden of All Souls College Oxford , will likely fetch quarter of a million pounds at auction . |
| 3 | Each year they grow a quarter of a million roses at Nuneham Courtnay … and try out 350 new seedlings … five new varieties were introduced this year . |
| 4 | Sales of the present Milan missile have already exceeded a quarter of a million rounds at a cost of several thousand pounds each . |
| 5 | I found this difficult to believe , but erm judging by the number of pigeon forecasts , race forecasts that we issue , erm we 're very often talking about a quarter of a million pigeons at a time flying from A to B , and we provide the forecasts for these federations that race these pigeons , and there are a lot of pigeons flying about . |
| 6 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 7 | Lot ten ten , ten is the Burmese Buddha this the Buddha showing for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds , and ten at a hundred and ten pounds all done ? |
| 8 | Er , Lot , Lot number fifty two I 'm offering which is in front of the rostrum here Lot number fifty two for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , one twenty , one thirty at a hundred and thirty pounds any more at one hundred and thirty , one forty in the centre one fifty going on sir ? |
| 9 | Lot fifty three again it 's in front of the rostrum here , Lot number fifty three for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred , you all done ? |
| 10 | Lot number sixty six Lot number sixty six is another one there we are , there 's another one showing for a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds any more at one ten , one twenty , thirty , forty , fifty one sixty , seventy one eighty at the back against you near me one eighty at the back and selling for a hundred and eighty pounds , all done at one eighty . |
| 11 | Lot number sixty eight Lot sixty eight is another one there we are that one is showing for a hundred pounds at one ten , one twenty , one thirty bid , and s one forty one fifty sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two forty two forty bid at the back and selling for two forty , all done at two hundred and forty . |
| 12 | Thank you , Lot number ninety one Lot number ninety one for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds any more at one hundred pounds only ? |
| 13 | For a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten I 'm bid , at one twenty , one thirty at one hundred and thirty pounds any more at one thirty , and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds , you all done at one thirty . |
| 14 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 15 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 16 | He killed a hundred pheasants with a hundred shots at his friend Sir Richard Sutton 's estate of Lyndford , and in Scotland 97 grouse with 97 shots . |
| 17 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 18 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 19 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |