Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 2 | A thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation in the U K. |
| 3 | competition I entered was win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles . |
| 4 | I 've won a midi hi-fi system and a thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation . |
| 5 | Well what I did , there were a competition , win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles and I , I entered every single one of them because of Irene . |
| 6 | They handled something something like a thousand pounds worth of cars that |
| 7 | Alas , Barents got no further than Novaya Zemlja , a large island in the Russian Arctic , about a thousand kilometres east of Svalbard . |
| 8 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 9 | A thousand miles northeast of the Grand Canyon , ancient rocks of about the same age as those beside the Colorado River outcrop on the shores of Lake Superior . |
| 10 | Close to the primer , the sequence starts with a 25 units track of the repeat T 2 AG 3 , followed by the Tetrahymena T 2 G 4 telomeric sequence . |
| 11 | THE scandal of more than one-third of a billion pounds worth of intervention food being held in cold storage in the Republic while millions of people are dying in Africa has angered TDs . |
| 12 | I says to Steve , I may as well buy a ten pounds worth of anything else |
| 13 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 14 | Philips Car Systems in Bicester supplies stereo equipment to the truck company and could loose half a million pounds worth of trade if it collapses . |
| 15 | Over a million pounds worth of water filtration kit , vital in the North African Desert , but being delivered ast a critical time in relations with the Libyan Government … but that 's not going to stop them . |
| 16 | He 's alleged to have smuggled three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain , concealed in a lorry load of pot plants . |
| 17 | A florist has been convicted of smuggling three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain . |
| 18 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 19 | The violence in Blackburn , in which riot police were attacked , has resulted in a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 20 | The cause for the closure … arsonists who early last Sunday week set fire to a pile of books in the main school building causing half a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 21 | On the agenda , how best to make half a million pounds worth of cuts to Gloucestershires ' library service . |
| 22 | Told him , selling a million pounds worth of flour e er flour a year and he had his twenty first coming up and apparently , he starts spilling the beans |
| 23 | Th , no he was telling the customer he was selling a million pounds worth of flour a year and that and I , I 've got a twenty first birthday er , you know , wi , coming up , party well after that . |
| 24 | With its customary fury the northeast monsoon flung its nightly torrent of rain onto the close-packed ranks of rubber trees sprouting from the red-brown jungle soils of the Vi An plantation a hundred kilometres north of Saigon . |
| 25 | Five , one , two , three , forty , five , put for winnings a hundred times roll of both dice |
| 26 | Three , a hundred pounds worth of premium bonds . |
| 27 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 28 | The plan was to use Independent Companies for raids in the Middle East , and a sixth centre , a remote national park , a hundred miles south-east of Melbourne , was set up to train them . |
| 29 | Out of the corner of his eye he could see Maisie , who was now about a hundred yards south of the rest of the school . |
| 30 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |