Example sentences of "[adv] of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This low-impact , high energy workout promises the aerobic equivalent of a seven mph run with the impact to the legs equivalent only of a three mph walk . |
| 2 | The Americans talk optimistically of a 60–90 day stint before handing over to notional , yet-to-be-sponsored , UN peacekeepers . |
| 3 | This , which is exposed at the very lowest tides , consists usually of a 300–500 m ( 1000–1600 ft ) wide surface of dead coral and debris partly cemented with encrusting algae . |
| 4 | Part two of the questionnaire consisted mainly of a 24 item Likert-type attitude scale developed from comments , also made by case study teachers , about SSE as a general notion ( i.e. not linked specifically to the Solihull booklet ) . |
| 5 | In fact the day before this instruction was issued to all units , 6 Armoured Division in Italy had already taken the surrender of a group headed by Gen Damjanovic of some 10,000 men describing themselves as Chetniks and Royalists , accompanied by upwards of a thousand civilians , including women and children [ KP 48 ] . |
| 6 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 7 | FCSI is reportedly trying to keep its overheads down by being run as a project within HP but it will still cost upwards of a million dollars to organise . |
| 8 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 9 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 10 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 11 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 12 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 13 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |