Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guide is not intended as a one stop reference guide . |
| 2 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 3 | The prices of alarms , as well , you 'd be quite surprised they do not range from a thousand . |
| 4 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 5 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 6 | Mr French was also convinced that set aside will not result in a 15 per cent cut in cereal production this year . |
| 7 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 8 | He placed £10,000 which he did not possess on a 10 to 1 favourite , Bellevin , to win £1,000 . |
| 9 | They 're not tied to a nine-to-five , that 's for sure . |
| 10 | But , if possible , try to involve other members of the family in the puppy 's care as well , so that it integrates fully and does not develop into a one person' dog . |
| 11 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 12 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale , even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 13 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 14 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 15 | Shift workers would enjoy far more normal social lives if their leisure was not superimposed on a seven day cycle of work and leisure , which they can not share . |
| 16 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 17 | I ca n't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void . |
| 18 | He wo n't last for a ten now done the , done the Welcome Break , they done the Char Grill , now they 're on the Tescos . |