Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 2 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 3 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 4 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 5 | ‘ Naturally , I demand your written undertaking that the eighteen months ’ hard labour I have agreed to do here cancels out , fully and forever , the three and a half thousand pounds I owe you . ’ |
| 6 | Britain 's smallest house is for sale at one and a half thousand pounds I 'll buy it |
| 7 | Finally , Shooting the Actor ( RC79 ; 3 hours approx ) is different again : Simon Callow reading his own diary of a long six weeks he spent in Yugoslavia towards the end of 1987 , acting in a film called Manifesto under the direction of Dusan Makavejev , and monitoring daily , in understandably narcissistic vein , the deterioration of their professional relationship . |
| 8 | Stretching for a good twelve feet it read in red on white THE GREAT TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY RACE TRAIN , and in blue letters a good deal smaller underneath , THE ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB , MERRY & CO AND VIA RAIL PRESENT A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN RACING . |
| 9 | After a terrible 15 minutes I managed to talk again to the same doctor and she explained that elevated meant they were not nought , not as I had thought , that they were going up . |
| 10 | A thousand thousand ways we 'll find To entertain the hours ; No two shall e'er be known so kind , No life so blest as ours . |
| 11 | So that means if you could line up a hundred million atoms you 'd just reach one centimetre ? |
| 12 | The insects were the first creatures to colonise the air and for a hundred million years it was theirs alone . |
| 13 | an appeal goes into a hundred thousand pounds you know |