Example sentences of "not [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | forty , twenty five watts or less , forty watts nominal the ones I 'm running not through a hundred watt channel , er |
| 2 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 3 | Use a GUI , and treat your computer as a tool , not as a five year mission . |
| 4 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 5 | ‘ I approached Mickey Duff about Wharton , but he said ‘ not for a million pounds ’ , then Nicotra demanded a ridiculous £375,000 to fight . |
| 6 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 7 | Secondly , the two lines do track very closely together , but not with a twelve month lag as one might expect ; the two curves are almost superimposed . |
| 8 | Not in a million years . |
| 9 | Not in a million years . |
| 10 | No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years . |
| 11 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 12 | Not in a million years . |
| 13 | Not in a million years , Mr. Kopek . |
| 14 | And not in a million quintillion millenia is she anything like me . ’ |
| 15 | But not in a hundred . |
| 16 | ‘ Not in a hundred years , ’ Gloria said . |
| 17 | She would , not in a hundred years , have ever thought for Tom . |
| 18 | Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible . |
| 19 | ‘ Not in a thousand years ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That useless baggage would never make a good hostess — not in a thousand years . ’ |
| 21 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 22 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |