Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
| 2 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 3 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
| 4 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 5 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 6 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 7 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 8 | Would that always be the same as a two times a three ? |
| 9 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
| 10 | When an accused faces a number of charges , it is very common for the defence advocate to offer a reduced plea to a number of the charges , provided others , often more serious ones , are dropped . |
| 11 | This is so since the relation of dependence between the variables given in the law is wholly symmetrical : a later state of a system fixes an earlier state as much as an earlier fixes a later . |