Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 2 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 3 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 5 | In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle , Robert Holford . |
| 6 | Altogether , therefore , over a quarter of a million candidates from over 800 centres became involved with SCOTVEC at a variety of levels during the session . |
| 7 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 8 | There was still a good deal to be done : studying the local map , persuading a naval man to lend me his dark blue trousers , and buying a filthy cap for a hundred cigarettes from a Pole working in the washroom . |
| 9 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |