Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing poor about me except for trying to live on my measly eleven bob a day . |
| 2 | It is recognized within the UGIX design that to some high-level users skilled in the manipulation of spatial data a command line interface to a GIS offers the maximum flexibility and power available . |
| 3 | They did not have to pay the usual £20 a tablet and both took one . |
| 4 | With currency debasement of 9% a year since 1972 , GEC 's cash mountain lost purchasing power at nearly 92 £150m a year for 20 years . |
| 5 | The former Gestetner Holdings Plc unit , doing some $20m a year with 80 staff , works with technology suppliers to develop laser printer products and controller boards . |
| 6 | The companies also bring with them maintenance and support billings worth some £3m a year . |
| 7 | The companies also bring with them maintenance and support billings worth some £3m a year . |
| 8 | Only this year will revenues from its open system products begin to outstrip sales of Cyber kit , even though mainframe revenues are decreasing by around 25% a year and sales of open systems rising by some 100% a year . |
| 9 | Five days later , on 16 March 1988 , the Halifax Building Society advanced £150,000 upon the security of 7 , Ernest Road , Hornchurch , and a further £116,250 a week later on 23 March 1988 . |
| 10 | The UK government secured a package of US concessions worth some £200,000,000 a year in return for relaxing this rule . |
| 11 | A similar boost to the imports of Eastern Europe ( excluding the Soviet Union ) would be worth some $7.5billion a year for five years . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs Davis , we 're going to pay you another £1,500 a year ’ … |
| 13 | Assuming that the growth of the OECD economies averages some 3% a year during the 1990s , the bulletin reckons that continuing pressure on the industrialised countries to modernise their manufacturing base will generate real annual growth of at least 4% for mechanical engineering — hence the expected increase of 50% in world market volume by the year 2000 . |
| 14 | An extra 1% on a £40,000 loan would increase your payments by some £33.50 a month . |
| 15 | Datability , does some $22m a year making multiprotocol local network interconnect products and terminal and communications servers . |
| 16 | Mrs Wordingham received an income for life ( some £8,000 a year ) as a result of her father 's will . |
| 17 | Based on this data a MANOVA was performed on the data from day 19 to day 27 . |
| 18 | Using the quotation for British Petroleum in the same issue of the r m S we observe a market model estimate of beta of 1.05 , an R2 of 19 per cent and a standard deviation of 35 per cent , and using this data a beta of 1.0897 is estimated , a small difference and well within the standard error limits of + - 0.2 . |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards he went missing in the cauldron of the Ruhr , I only wanted to tell him he should have got more than 30 bob a piece for them . |
| 20 | This week an aide confirmed that Mr Takeshita got a further ¥30m a week or so later from Recruit . |
| 21 | Gone down four four and a half pence a gallon . |
| 22 | If the Commission sells it cheaply — for a few pence a kilo , with free transport thrown in — it is criticised for recklessness with public money . |
| 23 | It is a primeval wilderness tamed only where men built boundary walls two centuries ago , finding and cutting the stone they needed , feeding and sleeping on the site , and all for a few pence a day . |
| 24 | Running on paraffin , it costs just a few pence a day to run , and there is sufficient fuel for five to seven days continuous use , whilst radiating 170 BTU 's of heat stored in the 0.5 litre capacity base . |
| 25 | They do not have too much to grouse about , though : the family 's income is about 1,600 yuan a month . |
| 26 | Yes , do n't think we were n't watching you … measurable weight loss needs to be at least in the region of 2 lb a week in order to provide that reward so essential to sustained effort . |
| 27 | Such charges would raise some £700m a year . |
| 28 | After the death of John Rose [ q.v. ] in 1677 , Gurle succeeded him as the king 's gardener at St James 's , with £320 a year to maintain the garden and another £240 a year as his own salary . |
| 29 | That 's under 22 pence a day — less than the cost of most daily newspapers . |
| 30 | Even in the days of hard communism , parents had to pay a few yuan a term . |