Example sentences of "a [num] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a three- or five-door hatchback that comes with umpteen variations of engine , from a 1.2 petrol up to a 1.9 diesel and , like the new Volkswagen Polo , it has a catalytic converter as standard . |
| 2 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 3 | When everyone has been checked , a senior Ranger leads about a dozen riders over to the park where less experienced riders are given lessons . |
| 4 | In California , New Orleans , San Francisco and a dozen centres all over the States , tranquility-seekers are zapping stress by plugging in to brain gyms . |
| 5 | I turned my back on the lochan and walked a dozen paces away from the edge before heading back towards the road . |
| 6 | The latter is over a thousand feet thick in the Belfast area , and twice as much at Larne . |
| 7 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Kinsai was constructed on top of a plug of volcanic rock which rose sheer for almost a thousand metres out of an almost perfectly flat and featureless plain . |
| 10 | Previously they would be drawn directly from over a thousand bobbins straight to the loom in a visible display of colour . |
| 11 | Zack shrugged , picked one in the middle — approximately a thousand stones out of the 25,000 on the table . |
| 12 | Why I 'm yes that that might be a bit more complicated because that means we 've got to get a thousand a thousand reject up to a thousand reject ball bearings which are all the same . |
| 13 | With more than a thousand people already on the waiting list , they 'll be offered bed and breakfast . |
| 14 | For them " the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " had been definitively expressed over a thousand years previously in the way of life and teaching of Jesus Christ in Palestine , in his death at the hands of violently destructive men and in his restoration in life with the source of all being , God . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is that the coin was indeed a perfectly ordinary cause of something , which thing was not a thousand miles away from the bar 's coming out . |
| 18 | She felt a thousand miles away from the gentle professor , who used to cross out the expletives in Sheridan and even bowdlerized Macbeth . |
| 19 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
| 20 | Rangers followed up a 3-2 win in the Skol Cup with a 4-0 victory there in the league in September . |
| 21 | The Department of the Environment alone by 1988 was spending half a billion pounds out of an Action for Cities total , involving most Home departments , estimated at £3 billion . |
| 22 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 23 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 24 | A hundred times out of a hundred , a million times out of a million . |
| 25 | They expect to have sold more than a million IQs worldwide by the end of 1991 . |
| 26 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 27 | It 's a million miles away from a cold wet evening in Hereford , but that does n't dampen the enthusiasm of the Holmer School Steel Band . |
| 28 | Indeed , this sort of campaigning has given rise to a certain newspaper image — that Mr Kinnock is being protected from real people , shepherded into a succession of carefully-staged photo-opportunities designed to look good on television but a million miles away from the real cut and thrust of the hustings . |
| 29 | The new books feature the same detective , Sarah Keane , and are set in a newspaper office ‘ not a million miles away from the Mirror ’ , according to Gordon . |
| 30 | It means Oxford finish in 14th place ; a million miles away from the relegation zone . |