Example sentences of "be a [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're a million miles from that . |
| 2 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 3 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 4 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 5 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 6 | " " There are a thousand lettuces in a pile at the top of the marsh . |
| 7 | There 'd be a million fools by now , |
| 8 | Yeah , there must be a million Marks about |
| 9 | Christ , that 's gon na be a thousand pounds on a full comprehensive , just about . |
| 10 | Because what happens , as soon as he 's , go goes back to work , it goes back down again , to what would be a thousand pounds for any future claims to start with again . |
| 11 | There might be a thousand methods for closing the deal , but in the end the customers will buy only if they want to buy . |
| 12 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 13 | Back at the boats , I reflect that if the Grand Canyon dam is ever built , most of what I can see will be a hundred feet under water . |
| 14 | You 're going to get charged for the amount going through will be a hundred electrons per second times sixty seconds . |
| 15 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
| 16 | There would also be a dozen girls from the brothel in attendance , they would provide colour , and nothing more . |
| 17 | In place of a sandy , open heath , supporting a rough pasture , there would be a dozen miles of flowering hawthorn in time , enclosing small fields that were being assiduously marled to produce corn crops . |
| 18 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 19 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 20 | Do n't you remember look if there were a hundred minutes in an hour that would be two point one two , but there 's not a hundred minutes in an hour are there ? |
| 21 | In the same issue , however , there were a dozen advertisements for surgical appliances and five for abortifacients . |
| 22 | They were a dozen paces down a ground-floor corridor , and then ushered into an interview room . |
| 23 | There were a dozen mourners from the family in the front pews — women with grey curls and mild glasses , an old man bent over a stick , his head projecting forwards from the unoccupied collar of his overcoat like a tortoise 's ; a schoolboy in a neat navy-blue trenchcoat , holding a maroon cap . |
| 24 | I mean if you 're a builder and you receive sixteen thousand , of , of that there 's a thousand pounds from Joe Bloggs builder whatnot , then the er the tax inspector will make a note , and pass on a little note to Joe Bloggs ' file that , yeah he paid Bill Smith a thousand pounds , and i that then should appear in his accounts , and if it does n't , then he 's a ripe subject for being investigated . |
| 25 | Okay there 's a hundred metres of string out so you know |
| 26 | ‘ And what 's a hundred generations in the life of a bug ? ’ |
| 27 | Erm it 's a hundred years of parish government really , and er I would have thought probably we 'll find out that the National Association of Local Councils will probably be organizing something we can erm erm you know , adhere to . |
| 28 | If some project comes up during the course of the year , I would have thought that it might be appropriate to erm er cobble the name of centenary onto it , but I do n't really think that this year we just commit ourselves to something just because there 's a hundred years of parish government coming up . |
| 29 | Modern communications make the diffusion of ideas in a largely literate population so rapid that Freud was undoubtedly a name more widely known in his own lifetime than was Newton 's a hundred years after his death . |
| 30 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |