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 .
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