Example sentences of "of a [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 2 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 3 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 4 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |
| 5 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 6 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 7 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 8 | A property developer is hoping to defy the recession by putting flats in a converted Mill on the market at up to a quarter of a million pounds a time . |
| 9 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 10 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 11 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 12 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 13 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |