Example sentences of "has [vb pp] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself .
2 After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs .
3 The Soviet-American joint venture ‘ 21st-Century Technologies ’ has given a million roubles and a truckful of restoration materials has arrived in Moscow , courtesy of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt .
4 The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others .
5 It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 .
6 ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said .
7 Clark was eager to play in tonight 's Anglo-Italian tie against Leicester at St James 's Park but boss Keegan said : ‘ Lee has run a million miles for us this season .
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