Example sentences of "with a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were lying panting , in the muddled bed , with a thousand thousand sparks of fire falling down upon them , vanishing , gently as snow , as they landed . |
| 2 | The bureau is looking for people with a spare six hours a week who would be able to cope with working in a busy office . |
| 3 | GRIM Reaper Robin Reid 's road to boxing glory ended yesterday with a disappointing 8-3 points defeat in the semi-finals , writes Mike Langley . |
| 4 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 5 | Julian Jochim the star of England 's youth team last season is just five feet six inches tall and David Speedy towers over him with a lofty five feet seven . |
| 6 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 7 | With a boost in public increase brought about by the opening of the line extension to Glyndyfrdwy the Railway is now clearly in a higher division with a respectable 5½ miles of operating length . |
| 8 | She faces world 10,000 metres champion Liz McColgan in the 1500 metres in Sheffield on June 6 and 7 after registering her first victory of the summer with a rare 3,000 metres outing at Cardiff . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , another Scot , Margaret Letham , a former British champion and beaten semi-finalist last year , began her challenge with a superb two sets to nothing nine-end victory over Jersey 's Sue Dingle . |
| 10 | Thirty years on , with a new Four Seasons , Valli is touring Britain again , with a timeless repertoire of rock'n'roll standards . |
| 11 | That was effectively the end of Liverpool 's challenge , and Spartak confirmed their greater class with a second three minutes from time . |
| 12 | I have recently become the owner of a 1980 88 inch Series III with a genuine 17,500 miles from new . |
| 13 | Emaciated , servile , exhausted , Stepan and Ilya Holovich found themselves herded with a hundred thousand others into the Displacement Camps . |
| 14 | I know she walks away with a hundred thousand dollars from each of those but money is not everything . |
| 15 | ‘ I just did a couple of wild things for the videos : I covered myself with a hundred thousand bees for the Flight Of The Bumblebee and I also walked on hot coals ! ’ |
| 16 | When the aircraft took off , at last , with a mere 18 missiles , no clearance had been given for overflights between Tel Aviv and Tehran . |
| 17 | It was just one hundred and seven days since , sailing from exile in Elba with a mere thousand men , he had landed on an empty beach in southern France . |
| 18 | The accounts are , as usual , contradictory , but according to the fullest account de Tourville next despatched nine of his ships back to Brest to collect additional troops , who were to be transported across the Channel in shallow-draught galleys , collected from the Mediterranean , with a mere two feet [ 0.6 m ] of freeboard between waterline and deck . |
| 19 | In 1935–36 , the only tutorial Class in the county was at Norwich , in social philosophy , with a mere seventeen members although another Tutorial Class in psychology commenced in 1936–37 . |
| 20 | The largest of them , the Resolution , was only 110 feet long , 30 feet 5 inches wide with a mere 462 tons burthen . |
| 21 | Nevertheless volcanic bombs were hurled this distance compared with a mere 25 miles from the more publicized Krakatoa eruption . |
| 22 | On Thursday 6 October 1715 Derwentwater and Forster , with a mere 60 horsemen , occupied Rothbury in central Northumberland , a small market town about 27 miles [ 44 km ] north of Newcastle and about 14 [ 23 km ] from the Scottish border . |
| 23 | Green argued that if the principle were extended to all eight counties the RAC would be controlled by the LEAs with a mere three members representing the WEA and only three representing the Cambridge Board with Hickson and Pateman as the committee 's servicing officers . |
| 24 | Rising to the challenge , with a mere three men left behind to guard Hampshire , Dorset and South Wiltshire , the service team swarmed aboard . |
| 25 | In light-water reactors ( including PWRs ) the concrete shell of the reactor building needs to withstand a pressure of five bars , whereas a fast breeder has to cope with a mere 40 millibars , according to an Electricite de France engineer . |
| 26 | In this case a boot with a generous 490 litres of storage space . |
| 27 | The 400 can be configured with a theoretical 64 CPUs — though linear performance gains are curtailed at 28 processors , and the largest installed machine runs only eight 68040s ( downsized from 16 68030s ) . |
| 28 | The quartet , which entered the competition with a leading seven nominations , accepted via videotape from Minneapolis . |
| 29 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 30 | ‘ Before that , they had just sent them into a studio with a few hundred pounds and the records were almost souvenirs of the live side . |