Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's Sunderland , and after about a hundred and twenty years under the sea , the lustre 's still lustrous ! ’ |
| 2 | A team of six inspectors compiled the reports from visits to homes over last three months , and from almost a thousand questionnaires . |
| 3 | THE REMAINS of the Globe Theatre , where Shakespeare acted and at least a dozen of his plays were premiered , have been discovered by archaeologists excavating on the south bank of the Thames in central London . |
| 4 | Armourers are about to load-up a 4,000lb Cookie and at least a dozen 500lb bombs are ready for the night 's operation . |
| 5 | Although an unhappy liaison with Rodin consumed much of her attention during the next several years , she did produce many drawings , among them most of her famous cat studies , and at least a dozen paintings . |
| 6 | The plate tectonics model proposes that the Earth 's surface comprises seven major , and at least a dozen minor , lithospheric plates composed of the crust and the upper , more rigid , part of the mantle ( Fig. 2.14 ) . |
| 7 | In cosmopolitan Cairo with its three principal working languages and at least a dozen other widely used ones people turned as readily to the overseas press as they did to the native one . |
| 8 | To run your average Windows app you 'll need 4Mb of RAM , a 100Mb hard disk and at least a 386 . |