Example sentences of "look [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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1 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
2 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
3 | fifty , oh looks like a five five one thread |
4 | LOOKS LIKE A MILLION FOR £13.49 |
5 | LOOKS LIKE A MILLION FOR £9.45 |
6 | ‘ I do n't think it looks like a million other pools at all , ’ he stated , an edge of impatience to his voice . |
7 | ‘ Your múmia looks like a million dollars , too . ’ |
8 | ‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen . |
9 | close your zero there in case it looks like a six . |
10 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
11 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
12 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
13 | ‘ First off , ’ I said , thinking as I spoke , ‘ I 'm looking for a four-by-four . |
14 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
15 | Manager Lennie Lawrence is looking for a 20,000 crowd and three points against the runaway leaders . |
16 | How much would you pay for that , if that were you , if you were thirty , looking for a thirty year plan , guaranteed to keep in line with inflation , thousand pounds a month . |
17 | You 're always looking for a four on a par-5 , but at that stage you 'd take it as long as your main opposition has n't gone away . |
18 | LOOKING for a three bedroom bungalow in the Woolton area ? |
19 | It is looking for a 60 year franchise that could be terminated by the Government at 10 year intervals . |
20 | A four-year investor is looking for a 25 per cent return here , against a Japanese counterpart only asking for 7 per cent over 14 years . |
21 | He enjoyed the life of a country landowner , looking after a 3,000 acre estate around Wormelow . |
22 | You know you 've got a million people and you 're just looking after a thousand , maybe more . |
23 | Charity stared , stunned , at the open , upside-down jewellery box on her bathroom floor , and at the necklace that winked up at her , looking like a dozen teardrops strung together on a web of silver . |
24 | On Monday morning everybody starts posting data into the database through the application interface and Fred 's posting in data at fifteen percent V A T , everybody else is posting in the data at seventeen and a half percent V A T. So we 're looking at a two and a half percent margin . |
25 | Cos if you 're looking at a two hundred capacity conference for er |
26 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
27 | But I mean , your looking at a twenty , thirty year old now , who says I 'm gon na be packing up when I 'm fifty . |
28 | Oxfordshire Health Authority admits its having to look for a two million pound saving under the Government 's Health Reforms . |
29 | Instead of having three to look after I 'd probably end up having to look after a seven or eight . |
30 | This may look like a thirteen hundred cc Fiesta , but a glimpse in the bonnet reveals an 1800 cc diesel engine and the car 's number plate was from a stolen police car . |