Example sentences of "[num] of [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're rich/daft enough you can pay hundreds of pounds for a 1 metre pair of pure silver , hand-woven , dew-picked interconnects to join your three grand CD player to your ten grand amp ! |
| 2 | Cleveland Police are hunting two youths who grabbed a cash bag containing hundreds of pounds from a woman on her way to a Middlesbrough bank . |
| 3 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 4 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 5 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 6 | 2.1 also includes JumpStart , a way to automatically install and configure hundreds of systems across a network ; Online : Backup , the industry 's first product for restoring and backing up 2. x data across a network with the machines still active ; and Shield , C2 security . |
| 7 | Goldfish , for instance , lay hundreds of eggs at a time , but give them no parental care at all . |
| 8 | Sybil Hurcombe has sold hundreds of copies of a book of poems which she wrote in memory of her daughter , Lorraine . |
| 9 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client-server environment . |
| 10 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client/server environment . |
| 11 | They will be accompanied by the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and hundreds of dancers in a spectacle which will set the scene for the greatest soccer occasion in the history of the United States . |
| 12 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 13 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 14 | Sceptics doubt , however , whether this scenic region hundreds of miles from a major city can sustain a sprawling 13.5-acre showcase for Minimal , Pop , and Conceptual art . |
| 15 | Shadowlands stars Sir Anthony Hopkins , who was joined by hundreds of extras for a scene recreating university life in the 1950's . |
| 16 | Unshielded , an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare . |
| 17 | THE 13-year-old airliner — the newest in El Al 's jumbo fleet — carried hundreds of passengers until a few months ago . |
| 18 | And at one point hundreds of pigs in a nearby building were in danger of being roasted alive . |
| 19 | Their attackers hacked them to pieces with hundreds of blows from a 3ft panga sugar cane knife and a foot-long bush knife . |
| 20 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 21 | It 's been a bumpy ride , but the bill to privatize British Rail is almost at the end of its long parliamentary journey but the battle is n't over yet , earlier this week hundreds of protestors from a variety of backgrounds gave up a day and travelled from the North to carry their defiant message to Transport Secretary John MacGregor . |
| 22 | The association has had calls from hundreds of sufferers after a report that 17 people on human insulin have died this year . |
| 23 | But we had it at the N E C for a week and it must have produced hundreds of cages on a routine daily basis . |
| 24 | But attempts by Markovic to implement a tight monetary policy were undermined by the secret printing in January 1991 of dinars with a face value equivalent to US$1,600 million by the Serbian authorities ; similar printings without federal authorization were also carried out by the Croatian , Macedonian and Montenegran authorities [ see also pp. 37866-67 ] . |
| 25 | You know we we used to sell thousand of pounds worth a year and now we 're down to couple of thousand a year and we 're s , we are losing money on that . |
| 26 | Despite this theoretical risk , the possibility of safely establishing a tissue diagnosis in about two thirds of patients with a focal lesion on imaging justifies percutaneous aspiration cytology as a first line investigation . |
| 27 | They supplied $3.4 billion of exports in a total trade of about $60 billion in 1987 , notably from Brazil , Mexico and Taiwan , and have been increasing their share as better systems of production and reliable supply have been introduced . |
| 28 | Mr. Kinnock has accused Mr. Major of borrowing billions of pounds for a pre-election tax cut bribe . |
| 29 | Is not it madness to be spending billions of pounds on a missile system which does not deter and may not work — and when we have no one at whom to point it ? |
| 30 | The only blot on an otherwise clean campaign came on the eve of the poll when the communist newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya published a report implying that Yeltsin had been involved in an illegal deal to sell billions of roubles at a cheap rate to a British company . |