Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between having a good time and a bad time is so minimal it 's unbelievable , but this , with three points for a win , situation it makes it so hard to say well we 're a bottom side , we 're a top side , all of a sudden in half a dozen games we could be like a top side . |
| 2 | When you 've botched a job a dozen times you do n't hang around waiting to try one more time , you abandon it . |
| 3 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 4 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
| 5 | If I go to the market to buy a dozen eggs I pay the full price there and then . |
| 6 | ‘ Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember , ’ said Rosalind Russell , ‘ and they 'll leave the theatre happy . ’ |
| 7 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 8 | You 've got a dozen items I want a dozen items |
| 9 | After half a dozen tries I was n't cold any more . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a thousand things I want to ask you , Mr O'Dell . |
| 11 | ‘ A thousand leagues I 'll wait for you ! ’ |
| 12 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 13 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 14 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 15 | ‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 17 | For all that you 've been in and out of our house a thousand times you do n't know the way they are . ’ |
| 18 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 19 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 20 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |
| 21 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 22 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 23 | There were a million questions she wanted answering herself . |
| 24 | Maskell first here 's his record … over the years he 's nearly averaging a goal every other game … quarter of a million pounds he cost Swindon … one of the bargain buys of the season … |
| 25 | If she loses , she could be forced to repay almost a third of a million pounds she 's already received . |
| 26 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 27 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 28 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 29 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |
| 30 | ‘ To set up a million dominoes you need a huge hall that has to be totally isolated for more than six weeks , ’ says Peter Matthews . |