Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 2 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |
| 3 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 4 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 5 | Two weeks to march over a hundred miles , capture a castle and march back ? |
| 6 | The Communists , with a projected 8.5 per cent , were expected to win around a dozen seats . |
| 7 | We look out into the darkness wondering why we elected to go nearly a hundred miles in this . |
| 8 | As the atoms are introduced lesson by lesson , pupils use the cubes and dowel rods to predict about a dozen molecules . |
| 9 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 10 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 11 | I 'll come and pick you up , ’ I said , not out of courtesy , but because Purvis did n't look as though he had the strength to carry even a dozen records . |
| 12 | However , as coach John Rutherford pointed out , there are some experienced players among the 26-strong squad , including budding star Gregor Townsend and Scotland ‘ B ’ centre Craig Redpath , not to mention about a dozen Scotland U21 players from scrum-half Roderick Dickson to prop Graham McKee , the captain . |
| 13 | You would have to eat about a dozen apples in order to obtain that average daily 5 oz of sugar from this source ; you can imagine how long that would take and how difficult it would be to eat all the remainder of your daily food . |
| 14 | The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has lent his support to a campaign to raise over a million pounds to help one of the biggest collections of musical instruments in the world . |
| 15 | One of four Pakistan batsmen to hit over a thousand runs on this tour , he finished second in the averages with just under 60 . |
| 16 | Would you like to take effectively a three star , four star , one star er servicing ? |
| 17 | Stuart thought the man must be really strong to push about a hundred trolleys at one time . |
| 18 | He did n't understand that you have to throw away a million pounds in the first year in order to establish a readership and the faith of advertisers . ’ |
| 19 | From that point they were to make over a hundred films together , some thirty of them silent ones , and with their best work probably deriving from the phase 1929–35 , when they were engaged in creating coherent and sparse twenty-minute cameos . |
| 20 | Just after 7am and the early morning October haze lifts to reveal over a hundred staff from Pest Control London . |