Example sentences of "a [num] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They stood up pretty well considering we lost a 10-0 lead and then had to come from behind to win . ’ |
| 2 | Jones , 33 , took a 3-0 lead and never looked in any danger after that . |
| 3 | The Under 13 Clarkson Shield semi-finals ended all square after extra time , Stanfield ( Quinn 2 , Ruby 2 ) overcame a 3-0 deficit to force a 4-4 draw with Tramways ( Gill 2 , McDonald , Barton ) and Four Swallows ( Carroll , King ) had a 2-0 advantage but then missed a penalty allowing Athlone to hit back through Kennedy and Randalls to equalise . |
| 4 | World No 2 Parrott , out of form and out of sorts , slumped to a 9-3 defeat and then admitted : ‘ I 'm bushwhacked . ’ |
| 5 | This list includes eight marginal species — mountain and forest mammals that occur only on the arctic fringe — and over a dozen others that seldom penetrate far and are never found in the northern zones . |
| 6 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 7 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |
| 8 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 9 | Pascoe had obtained the number from directory enquiries and listened to her answerphone message a dozen times or more . |
| 10 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 11 | The closure order was prompted by the deaths of a dozen sheep and as many dogs . |
| 12 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 13 | Branson could spend ten times as much money signing half a dozen acts and never achieve the same effect . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 16 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 17 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |
| 18 | And erm there was half a dozen shops and quite a few , spent most of me life there . |
| 19 | However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation . |
| 20 | Stephen Clark enjoyed his 8.2 overs with a 5–42 return and later became the batting hero . |
| 21 | The latter player , once a top-10 performer but now languishing at No. 31 after a series of injuries and a great loss of confidence , was a bag of nerves . |
| 22 | With Ruggles and Parkinson hitting high and hard in the third , Partners held a 14–11 advantage but again failed to capitalise , although a couple of refereeing decisions left them puzzled . |
| 23 | Its council tenant service guarantee scheme launched a thousand charters and now it has thought of the alternative to the company car — the office bike . |
| 24 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |
| 25 | Here the land rises to a thousand feet or more above sea level . |
| 26 | Where the countryside is more hospitable , this can be left to a thousand feet or so . |
| 27 | Charsky catapulted into a rocky obstruction after tumbling a thousand feet or so . |
| 28 | The Australian desert , for example , is structurally an ancient worn-down plateau of crystalline and ancient sedimentary rocks , the more resistant of which rise to a thousand metres or more ( a few thousand feet ) above the general surface level . |
| 29 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 30 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |