Example sentences of "seen a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 2 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 3 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 4 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 5 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 6 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 7 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 8 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 9 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |