Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | half a dozen apples if they 're cheap |
| 2 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 3 | The phone rang half a dozen times before he answered it . |
| 4 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 5 | He tapped in the code , then waited , knowing the signal was being scrambled through as many as a dozen sub-routes before it got to its destination . |
| 6 | You might fill half a page or a dozen pages before you come to a standstill . |
| 7 | But that might have left you , the reader , with an empty feeling — like you had just eaten a dozen vol-au-vents when it was actually a three-course meal that you ordered . |
| 8 | Milan , one point ahead of Sampdoria at the top of the table , also have teething problems , trying to rotate half a dozen foreigners when they can only use three ! |
| 9 | And , er , you probably retrieve half a dozen files before you find the one that you want . |
| 10 | Williams was grabbed and restrained by half a dozen regulars until he and the Prime brothers were ejected into Egham 's busy streets . |
| 11 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 12 | Is it really true that Watership Down was rejected by over a dozen publishers before it was taken on and became a bestseller ? |
| 13 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
| 14 | It might cost you a thousand pounds if you live in a a huge detached house and in the back of building you 've got lots of rooms . |
| 15 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 16 | For over a thousand years after they last struck terror into the hearts of Irishmen , the Vikings were back and ready to plunder . |
| 17 | I died a thousand deaths before I got him ashore , but eventually , at the fourth attempt , I managed to beach the fish . |
| 18 | Note that the a 2 vibration is observed in the Raman spectrum of the liquid which also confirms the assignment of the four b-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas to a 1 vibrations as they coincide with partially polarized Raman bands . |
| 19 | People will have to tell me a million times before it gets through to me . ’ |
| 20 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 21 | You can make a private deal with insurance companies to insure your legs for a million pounds if they are your sole way of earning a living ! |
| 22 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 23 | He can still smell a million dollars when it 's within reach . |
| 24 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 25 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 26 | They are quick learners , and some cocks go on to vanquish more than a hundred opponents before they themselves miscalculate and die . |
| 27 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 28 | A hundred years since I was here . |
| 29 | Acknowledging the problems of information confidentiality and the need to retain machine-readable records for up to a hundred years before they can be publically released , it still seems feasible for the various interested parties to forge links in order to share expertise and avoid the needless duplication of effort . |
| 30 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |