Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was reading in the paper this morning , a chap , he 's a director of a big company in Birmingham , who was the world 's number one football fan , he used to spend about a thousand a year watching football , you know . |
| 2 | They get about a hu , they get about a hundred a day |
| 3 | All the same , he now sees 136 visitors each Saturday , against about a dozen a year ago . |
| 4 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 5 | More than 40 per cent of the output is exported to overseas markets : the equivalent of over 300 million pints annually or almost a million a day . |
| 6 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |