Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must tell them that you want to pick up a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 2 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 3 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 4 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 5 | Erm the imbalance is reflected in , in many ways but in one way is in traffic using the M twenty five , for example the Western section of the M twenty five from the M three , M four , M forty to the M one over the , the Western end where I live has approximately a hundred and sixty thousand vehicles a day which is e twice as many as the North Eastern side . |
| 6 | We 've got about a hundred and fifty . |
| 7 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 8 | So I 've never smoked them , I 've got about a hundred upstairs |
| 9 | Worked out right , but not in sort of , I 've bought some but including the rest of them I 've got about a hundred pounds spending . |
| 10 | No , in this country up until Christmas I 've got about a hundred pound include , including getting Christmas presents , from now too December the twenty-sixth . |
| 11 | You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ? |
| 12 | I do n't know , they 've sold out a dozen at Broadway this week , well int last fortnight , so White Gates were telling me , so , well if we do , we do , if the bungalow goes before we sell well , we 'll have to come and live with me mum until we find another one . |
| 13 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 14 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 15 | Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant . |
| 16 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |
| 17 | Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Social Services plan to set up a 24 hour helpline . |
| 19 | Aintree and Fazakerley have opened up a six point lead in the second division with 35 from six matches . |
| 20 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 21 | When the band have achieved considerable chart success ( when they have sold approximately a million copies of their albums ) , they should consider whether a royalty examination should be done . |
| 22 | Michael Attenborough of Hodder commented : ‘ For any publisher , losing an author all of whose books have sold over a million copies in their UK editions — and I have no doubt that As the Crow Flies will join them soon — is very regrettable . |
| 23 | I mean every year we have a campaign from about the middle of January to the end of February where we promote British holidays through our shop windows , and in fact I was just totting up our advertising spend in the last four or five weeks and I would say we have spent almost a hundred thousand pounds on partner advertising for Lunn Poly — book your holiday at Lunn Poly for U K holidays . |
| 24 | In the meantime , I have set up a three foot tank with a mature filter , coral gravel and rockwork ready for the fry . |
| 25 | He did n't understand that you have to throw away a million pounds in the first year in order to establish a readership and the faith of advertisers . ’ |