Example sentences of "and a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held their victims hostage for half an hour before making off with twenty thousand pounds worth of gold and a thousand pounds in cash . |
| 2 | I 've won a midi hi-fi system and a thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation . |
| 3 | Of course , there are also the dried shrimp pastes , green curry paste , ginger and galingale , lotus and a thousand others . |
| 4 | CBGB 's is all at once an intrinsically ‘ Noo York ’ place and a thousand light-years away from the push'n'shove of this most overbearing of cities . |
| 5 | ‘ It is greener and cooler and a thousand times more beautiful and you will see it all for yourself one day , ’ he told her , gathering her into his arms and teasing her lips with his own . |
| 6 | And a thousand widgets will generate enough profits so I can pay my workforce , and some profit for myself . |
| 7 | Twenty-five ships , and a thousand mercenaries in them . |
| 8 | No mean bat , he also scored just over 17,000 runs for the county , and did the double of a hundred wickets and a thousand runs seven times ( nine times counting all cricket ) . |
| 9 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 10 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 11 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 12 | There are two runs … over five hundred metres and a thousand metres … |
| 13 | Published three times a year and a thousand copies and distributed to all school 's within a very wide area through the Education Authority . |
| 14 | As they stepped from the carriage a captain , three NNCOs and a thousand women wer waiting on the platform to welcome them . |
| 15 | had multiplied , and a thousand fires |
| 16 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm leaving , Sir John , but I 'll be back in the spring with His Majesty 's Justices and a thousand pikemen ! ’ |
| 18 | This was partly because trolls generally are , in any case , but it was exacerbated by the fact that the sudden and instantaneous teleportation from its lair in the Rammerorck Mountains three thousand miles away and a thousand yards closer to the Rim had raised its internal temperature to a dangerous level , in accordance with the laws of conservation of energy . |
| 19 | My people have just finished their knitting and a thousand dishcloths are on their way to you . |
| 20 | A fortnight later one thousand men , with a thousand legs , a thousand arms and a thousand eyes between them , were ordered home . |
| 21 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 22 | Erm the County Council 's phrase , an ability to link into the rail network , was geared originally to their proposal for a settlement of between eight hundred and a thousand dwellings . |
| 23 | And a thousand men stayed , they were boasting , to level the church and the hall and the monastery and then leave to do the same to Scone and to Perth . |
| 24 | ‘ Partial compensation ’ will delight some : the majority of items were bought up wholesale for between a hundred and a thousand roubles , and inflation makes the clearance sale easier at any rate , it would make life easier for privileged auction attendees from the State Chamber of Cultural and Natural Heritage . |
| 25 | The reissue of an exit visa took two hours and a thousand riyals . |
| 26 | Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it . |
| 27 | Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die , we know this world is . |
| 28 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 29 | That was it , Julia said to herself , as she sat at the big scrubbed table in the Florentine kitchen , all those years and a thousand miles away . |
| 30 | Of oceans three miles deep and a thousand miles across ? |