Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 2 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 3 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 4 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 5 | the West Midlands has hauled a seven and a half ton truck from Great Ormond Street hospital to Birmingham Children 's Hospital to raise money . |
| 6 | It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession . |
| 7 | Denis Smith says that Phil is a good professional and has signed a two and half year contract and hopefully will be at the club a lot longer |
| 8 | Scientists have discovered a possible dinosaur nesting area , and an egg which has survived a hundred and forty five million years intact . |
| 9 | The King of Saudi Arabia has donated a hundred and fifty thousand pounds to Laura Davies , the four-year-old girl who needs a bowel and liver transplant to save her life . |
| 10 | You just put them into the formula , ad them up and then you do your Well let's say fifty eight fifty eight tonnes of H C L gives say a hundred and twenty tonnes of N A C L. |
| 11 | For the news programmes , this means finding a thousand and one different ways of making bricks without straw . |
| 12 | This game has excellent graphics and sound blaster support but does need a 286 or better to run . |
| 13 | cos he he does do a hundred and one jobs . |
| 14 | It 's done a hundred and eight thousand mile ! |
| 15 | Er And it it 's reckoned a hundred and sixty thousand people die a year , of smoking related diseases . |
| 16 | No , but he 's got a hundred and twenty thousand nest egg . |
| 17 | So he 's got three thousand pounds income , and he 's got a hundred and twenty thousand pound nest egg . |
| 18 | It 's got a hundred and fifty sheets in it . |
| 19 | That means he 's got a hundred and fifty pounds coming to him . ’ |
| 20 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |