Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 2 | The time required to pass a barge up and or barge down in a 50 feet balance lift would be approximately say 15 minutes . |
| 3 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 4 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 5 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 6 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 7 | Between now and December , the company estimates that revenue will be down by a million pounds . |
| 8 | Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on . |
| 9 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 10 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 11 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 12 | The sea glared on with a million eyes , a million witnesses to our getaway . |
| 13 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 14 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 15 | In Brockton , he turned up with a dozen fellow-students to revitalise local politics from the bottom up . |
| 16 | So she 's split the twelve up into a two times six . |
| 17 | The offshore championship is held over 10 rounds off the coast of Britain … the races can be anything up to a 100 miles … today its the Eastbourne Grand Prix … there 's not a deckchair to be had on the pier … its standing room only as thousands roll up to watch the big boats bouncing their way through the water … |
| 18 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 19 | Up to a million Armenians , by late February , were reported to be demonstrating daily in the city 's Opera Square . |
| 20 | Finally , they provide databases offering online access to extensive files of bibliographical information ( up to a million records , in one case ) . |
| 21 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 22 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 23 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 24 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 25 | During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind . |
| 26 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |
| 27 | At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital . |
| 28 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |
| 29 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
| 30 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |