Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 2 | At a hundred feet Peacock 's engine failed . |
| 3 | a hundred times Phil |
| 4 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 5 | The runner-up was former contract herdsman Rex Goodfellow , who started farming on his own account three years ago on a 34 acres Cheshire County Council smallholding Westview Farm , Shotwick Park , Saughall , near Chester . |