Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | As captain of Surrey for a dozen seasons , Fender was expert at making bricks without straw or , to be more precise , winning matches without bowlers on perfect Oval pitches . |
| 3 | And a report that a Polish plane has conducted the first ever direct evacuation from Kuwait of a hundred refugees , have further raised hopes here . |
| 4 | William de Casingham fled to the denser Weald with a thousand men , emerging to harry the French until the Earl Marshal could muster enough support to drive the invaders out in 1217 . |
| 5 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 6 | All had to go back to Felling , in the UK , where relabelling work started over Christmas and continued well into January in a 700 man-hours effort . |
| 7 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 8 | The league consisted of four leading competitions held over a period of three months at various venues in North Yorkshire on a 10 metres high Enterprises panel wall . |
| 9 | A hastily arranged challenge from Borders Roads Department led to a team from Lothian Highways heading for Kelso for a twenty overs a side match at the end of June . |
| 10 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 11 | No one had been called Emily for a hundred years . |
| 12 | The gangling 22-year-old , a modern linguist at Queens ' College , Cambridge , is said to have a serious chance of becoming ‘ the first Kinnock in a thousand generations ’ to achieve first-class honours . |
| 13 | He was superb in Anne of a Thousand Days , Becket , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Where Eagles Dare — they 've been innumerable . |
| 14 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years seeing it 's such an old town ? |
| 15 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years , seeing it 's such an old town ? |
| 16 | Then came the body of the Cid with an hundred knights , all chosen men , and behind them Doña Ximena with all her company , and six hundred knights in the rear . |
| 17 | The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each . |