Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] an " in BNC.
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1 | Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps … |
2 | A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … . |
3 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
4 | For a few days an Arkansas travel firm which organised the travel arrangements for the Clinton campaign last year was put in charge , working under a 25-year-old cousin of the president . |
5 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
6 | However , if there is no improvement within a few weeks an appropriate referral should be made . |
7 | In his desperation Tam gave the name of a Black Watch friend , got the job and donned the Black Watch kilt for a few coppers an hour the shame of it . |
8 | You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first . |
9 | Oh she borrowed it , and a bonnet and a white flowers an all and Joan turned up like a a twenty five year old Victorian fashion model you should have seen her ! |
10 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
11 | That day , we were on Flupper doing about a million miles an hour . |
12 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
13 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
14 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
15 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
16 | So shall we change it make it a hundred miles an hour . |
17 | Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour . |
18 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
19 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
20 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
21 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
22 | So doing a hundred miles an hour . |
23 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
24 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
25 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
26 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
27 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |
28 | It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon . |
29 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
30 | He says the course is really tight and they reach speeds of over a hundred miles an hour . |