Example sentences of "a [num] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
| 2 | Road in Toten , that 's the A six double O five has got roadworks at the junction of Lane , some delays in busy periods and the A fifty two , there 's roadworks on the northbound carriageway at Clifton Bridge , there are diversions there for A fifty two traffic heading for Drive as well , sort of weave your way in and out of all the cones that are up there , the the cone monster 's been in the night . |
| 3 | A woman widowed by a drunken driver has collected a fifty thousand signature petition demanding tougher sentences for offenders . |
| 4 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 5 | A couple who make medieval musical instruments have just won a fifty thousand pound order from the Far East . |
| 6 | We 've got a future , perhaps aspiration to have a fifty thousand pound mortgage to buy the house , the flat , or whatever they want , in , let's say , two year 's time . |
| 7 | What the repayments a month on a fifty thousand pound mortgage ? |
| 8 | They 'd probably have a fifty thousand pound mortgage to pay off the the existing mortgage on that one and the balance . |
| 9 | Today he claims all he 's left with is a fifty thousand pound loss , and hundreds of worthless tickets to a pop concert that never happened . |
| 10 | Mr do you want to have a ten minute break while you consider this question of whether you would be prepared to advise the panel that you would be a you would accept an amendment to the key diagram to show one star or what ever it is you have used on the key diagram to indicate A fifty nine relief road proposal ? |
| 11 | A fifty six pound bag . |
| 12 | They 've now , this government has actually made a , a fifty three year or a fifty four week year . |
| 13 | Even if you did did cut one or two admirals , you 're not going to make much of a dent in a fifty billion pound public expenditure deficit . |
| 14 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 15 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 16 | But now with a fifty billion pound deficit to contend with the Chancellor is expected to see VAT on books and newspapers as a useful source of income . |
| 17 | The government has a fifty billion pound deficit and so taxation must be increased in the short term . |
| 18 | For a Government with a fifty billion pound deficit to tackle it 's a tempting target for VAT , bringing in an estimated two and a quarter billion pounds . |
| 19 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 20 | The Centre basically consists of a 500 square foot office , housed at Livingston Development Corp headquarters in Livingston — ‘ the capital of Silicon Glen ’ , somewhere between Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 21 | There 's a 500 square foot showroom displaying the very latest lighting products for external use and they include wallmounted , garden and underwater lights . |
| 22 | Iranian troops garrisoned on Abu Musa ( under a 1971 joint adminstration agreement with Sharjah , a member emirate of the UAE ) had seized installations there in mid-April [ see p. 38887 ] . |
| 23 | They have 342ha ( 800 acres ) of arable , mainly down to wheat , barley , sugar beet , linseed , maize and rye , as well as a 120 head dairy herd . |
| 24 | Notts County at home to Oldham went into a forty second minute lead through Turner , and this all second division clash saw Notts County go further ahead through Short after sixty five minutes ; two nil the final score . |
| 25 | I believe we are a forty million pound organisation . |
| 26 | A forty million pound organisation needs proper management , and therefore you do have costs on top of it , and they are proper costs . |
| 27 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 28 | Two airman charged with starting a forty million pound fire at an RAF parachute packing centre have been released on bail , and given bodyguards . |
| 29 | Two airmen have appeared in court on a forty million pound arson charge after a fire destroyed a hangar at an RAF base . |
| 30 | Er you 're working forty forty five hours aye a forty five hour week . |