Example sentences of "have [verb] a [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act . |
| 2 | The Queen has broken a four hundred year old taboo by attending a service with all the leaders of England 's christian churches . |
| 3 | Chaired by Alistair Graham , Director of the Industrial Society , the TDLB has formed a 50 strong advisory committee of personnel from industry , training and education to set the standards which will form the basis of vocational qualifications for all training and development personnel . |
| 4 | f He has dropped a dozen fresh eggs . |
| 5 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 6 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 7 | A company which makes diesel engines has won a seven million pound contract to supply the United States Military . |
| 8 | Jobs have been saved by the announcement that British Aerospace has secured a five hundred million pound deal to sell Hawk trainer jets to Indonesia . |
| 9 | Keith Hall has built a four bedroomed house which he claims is the first in the country to be environment friendly . |
| 10 | A woman widowed by a drunken driver has collected a fifty thousand signature petition demanding tougher sentences for offenders . |
| 11 | Looking to the future the TEC has produced a 1992–1995 corporate and business plan , detailing a host of initiatives . |
| 12 | Mrs Bloomer has offered a one thousand pounds reward for the return of the items stolen . |
| 13 | A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies . |
| 14 | Intelligent and well researched , Morrissey escapes the naivety and hypocrisy that has brought a thousand young and earnest rock stars before him into the shallow waters of the plastic art form pop music so often is . |
| 15 | The President of Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , has announced a one billion pound programme to support coal field communities hit by closures . |
| 16 | Machin has signed a 3 ½-year contract . |
| 17 | The World Bank has unveiled a 4.3 billion dollar economic development plan for the West Bank and Gaza strip covering the next eight to ten years . |
| 18 | The National Union of Teachers has begun a two hundred thousand pound campaign to put education at the top of the General Election agenda . |
| 19 | Danny Kelly wrote of Gedge : ‘ He has etched a dozen little lovescapes of sometimes quite breathtaking realism , a world fuelled by desire , lust , paranoia , romance and bitterness , yet distinctly more Dalston than Dallas , more Darlington than Dynasty . |
| 20 | The French government has launched a 35 billion franc programme aimed at conserving water . |
| 21 | If I found you 'd won a hundred thousand pound I 'd kidnap you ! |
| 22 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 23 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 24 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 25 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |
| 26 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 27 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 28 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
| 29 | And they 've picked a .38 Special out of Lemke 's liver . ’ |
| 30 | No but I would I thought wow , I 've won a hundred you 've won a twenty one P packet of Walkers Crisps . |