Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state of the river and a temperature barely above freezing means it is going to be hard today but I will still feed about a dozen maggots when I cast in , and them the same again when the float is halfway down the swim . |
| 2 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 3 | They say there was oh half a dozen counters there you know . |
| 4 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 5 | Three years and near a thousand fuses later it was changed to gas . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , there are a thousand reasons why I wanted them to wait . ’ |
| 7 | If a factory chimney dumps smoke on a thousand gardens nearby it may be very expensive to collect 1 from each household to bribe the factory to cut back to the socially efficient amount . |
| 8 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 9 | this may explode into a thousand fragments so I 'll just have to start all over again without having to print out copy |
| 10 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 11 | ( Calculations show that a million years ago it shone as much the brightest star in the sky , and equalled Venus ; it was closer to us then than it is now . ) |
| 12 | And there were a hundred reasons why he might have had to ask Lexy to make the phone call . |
| 13 | ‘ I know some are n't well off , but a hundred years ago they starved on the streets . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A hundred years ago they were carried in after coming off their horses , or being knocked clown by carriages . |
| 15 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 16 | Over a hundred years ago they started making brass taps in the factory which is now Cooper Oils of Nailsworth . |
| 17 | are old and tired songs a hundred years ago they were on the go . |
| 18 | A hundred years on we are much less certain ; it all depends . |
| 19 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 20 | In 1865 , the infant mortality rate was 154 per thousand live births ; a hundred years later it was 21.8 per thousand ( Registrar General , 1963 ) . |
| 21 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 22 | It begins to get very cold and hats and pogies appear but we press on and soon after midnight portage Marlow ; a hundred yards downstream we find the campsite and land . |
| 23 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |