Example sentences of "go [adv prt] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
2 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
3 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
4 | It is not necessary to go back a hundred years , however , in order to discover a London haunted by unusually similar fears about the leniency of the law and the terrors of the night . |
5 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
6 | Oh , it was a disaster , he was er my estimation of him went down a hundred percent because she smoked |
7 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
8 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
9 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |