Example sentences of "[subord] a [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 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 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
| 4 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 7 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |
| 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 . |