Example sentences of "about a [num] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun , but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions . |
| 2 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 3 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
| 4 | That day , we were on Flupper doing about a million miles an hour . |
| 5 | According to UNICEF , about a million babies a year die because their mothers stop breast feeding too soon and switch to dried milk substitutes — without access to clean water for mixing . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 7 | She works in oils and , among other things , paints about a dozen portraits a year , charging £400 upwards . |
| 8 | Two hundred catalogues of the library were printed and there were about a dozen borrowers a week . |
| 9 | The original version of this machine — which Nelson eventually patented in 1955 — could cut about a dozen bars a minute : the version now in use can cut up to 400 a minute . |