Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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1 | 5029 is due to remain at Bury until the end of February , and is subject to a six steamings a month agreement , so it should see extensive use , and provide plenty of opportunities to experience GW ( four-cylinder power in Lancashire ) . |
2 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
3 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
4 | And this Mr you see , he used to have several , in the course of twelve months , they used to have several bullocks cos he used to keep perhaps , well up to eighty to a hundred bullocks a year for fat , yeah . |
5 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
6 | The Leeming airfield can get busy at times , so anything up to a dozen Tornados a day can visit us for refuelling . |
7 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
8 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
9 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
10 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |