Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situated next to the delightful city of The Hague , Floriade covers a vast 230 acres of which 168 acres are landscaped exhibition areas providing a breathtaking explosion of colour . |
| 2 | Example 5 is an arpeggio of an Asus2 chord , played with a sweep technique , that covers a full two octaves . |
| 3 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
| 4 | He wants a hundred thousand sum assured , escalating premium with waiver of premium on the sum assured for life . |
| 5 | that wants a reliable one owner , not ex-rental sort of set , you know ? |
| 6 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 7 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 8 | Fig 3 illustrates a typical three octave fingering of this scale , which should be played using alternate picking throughout . |
| 9 | At 75 per cent you see 124 mph , yet flat-out only adds a further 4 mph . |
| 10 | Krashen adds a further two parts to the hypothesis . |
| 11 | David Jenkinson has a two thousand acre farm near Cirencester . |
| 12 | The government has a fifty billion pound deficit and so taxation must be increased in the short term . |
| 13 | But even among such illustrious company as Alderson , Callender , Wood , Martyn and Glazier there is one goalkeeper that stands out and that is John Jackson , who has a prodigious 346 League and 42 FA and League Cup appearances to prove it . |
| 14 | Exactly a year ago , Wright , who has a paltry six goals to his name this season , was playing well enough to be making his full Scotland debut against Northern Ireland , but here he looked leaden-footed and posed little threat . |
| 15 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 16 | In Derbyshire , the A fifty two in has a temporary thirty miles per hour speed limit , and temporary traffic lights in operation . |
| 17 | McCoist , who has a phenomenal 34 goals already this season , is undergoing treatment after picking up a calf muscle injury at Dundee on Saturday . |
| 18 | Where the Commission opens proceedings , it then has a further four months in which to issue a final decision . |
| 19 | options over 6 million ordinary shares have been issued to date and the scheme still has a further 2 years to run . |
| 20 | Sherwood aims to exploit the product 's existing UK and overseas customer base and has a further three clients , to be announced soon . |
| 21 | Firms such as Sun Microsystems , which has a dominant one-third share of the market by value ( see chart on page 80 ) , have grown rich . |
| 22 | The health centre has a 12 000 practice population . |
| 23 | Alfred 's salary is eighty thousand four hundred and twenty pounds and Alberta 's is seven thousand a hundred and eighty four Alfred has a twenty two percent increase and Alberta a thirty eighty percent increase who earns more after all this ? |
| 24 | It also has a comfortable 5.5 inch long plastic handle . |
| 25 | It has a massive 90 foot tower from which you can see across Orford and the seashore nearby . |
| 26 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |
| 27 | The SD Ribbon is relatively insensitive and needs a good 50–100 Watts before it will blow properly , but even taking this into account , many amplifiers will sound harsh , grainy or in some other way ill at ease , especially if the volume is would up . |
| 28 | An 8.5″ by 11″ page at 300dpi needs 1 megabyte of memory , the same page at 400dpi needs nearly 2 megabyte while Printware 's 1,200 by 600 needs a massive 8.5 megabytes . |
| 29 | For television , Nunn has pruned 40 minutes off its four-hour plus length and he says a further twenty minutes may still come out . |
| 30 | Bull Information Systems UK Ltd says it has now installed 700 DPX/2 Unix servers and 15,000 diskless workstations at the UK 's Inland Revenue Office as part of the four-year £50m 1991 Iron contract : by 1994 , Bull says a further 300 servers and 10,000 stations will be in . |