Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [prep] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I find that nonsense , because the planning committee have just approved a major development station , which is for a 150 bed hotel on a housing development . |
| 2 | Each one is worth a thousand words , but a pack of six costs only £2.85 . |
| 3 | No , a toy-boy is where you 've got an old lady with a fif there 's about a twenty year old bloke . |
| 4 | and er , like Christmas , erm , they have these things on the telly when there 's about , every , every night there 's like a fifteen minutes ' programme , just before the close-down , of like , B B C One . |
| 5 | It is for a Mr erm , Ridgeway , and it 's for a two storey extension to an existing house . |
| 6 | And it 's about a five minute up to Holdam market on a Sunday is n't it ? |
| 7 | I mean , it 's quite , it 's about yeah , I do n't know , he said it 's about a forty minute walk or something . |
| 8 | It 's only a ten minute , it 's about a ten minute journey from Digby to Southlands . |
| 9 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |
| 10 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 11 | ‘ Now that it 's illegal , ’ he said , coughing , ‘ it 's worth a thousand times what it used to fetch . |
| 12 | So it 's in a three stage payment in effect . |
| 13 | There is the whole of the Brixen and Sperten valleys to explore , and it is about a ninety minutes walk to Kitzbuhel . |
| 14 | ‘ He is worth a hundred workaday mortals . |
| 15 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 16 | He is in a three foot tank with another Picasso Trigger which is 3″ long . |
| 17 | cos if he he 's on a twelve hour shift and , those meetings tend to be have been around the same sort of time , then obviously , what we 've got ta be careful about is , adding any more hours |
| 18 | Now he 's on a six week U.S. holiday with his girlfriend , an American air hostess . |