Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each . |