Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 2 | This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun , but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions . |
| 3 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 4 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
| 5 | This is about half a billion times the error rate of the histone H4 gene . |
| 6 | In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density . |
| 7 | Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class ! |
| 8 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 9 | ‘ A hundred times the diameter of the Earth , and you do n't call that huge ? ’ |
| 10 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 11 | The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got . |
| 12 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
| 13 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |
| 14 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |