Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopkins advised against sending reclaimed prostitutes into domestic service because of the danger to middle-class sons : ‘ better a thousand times that this fearful social evil should be localized in certain spots , which we call dens , than by our hasty and injudicious benevolence it should be struck into the very bosom of our families . ’ |
| 2 | He did that at the Hope ( Close : He improved three times , but would have had to better a 63 to do it every round — 76-68-67-63-69 ) . |
| 3 | This is very much a '50s rock'n'roll-type intro which consists of a combination of 4th double stops , two note bends ( 6-♭7 , over static b3s ) and full chords ( B7b9 and E7 ) . |
| 4 | Yes well , erm I think I mean I I did check with the various trustees last week and the current position is erm there was basically a four hundred and sixty million that er that was the original missing figure , to which now goes back over two years er recoveries have come to into over a hundred thousand now with the |
| 5 | The Washington was fitted with an Auxiliary Power Unit , ( APU ) which was located in the unpressurized rear fuselage. it was basically a two cylinder , four-cycle petrol engine which drove a generator . |
| 6 | Even if we did , we have no divers aboard — well , you and myself apart — trained to work at levels below a hundred feet . |
| 7 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 8 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 9 | What 's so unusual about the Calibra is that it is n't merely a two-plus-two , it 's a full four-seater . |
| 10 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 11 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 12 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 13 | Perhaps a million or more Americans now make their own brew , which is tax-free for the first 200 gallons a year . |
| 14 | The house , in 1980 , would be worth , their friends enviously muttered , perhaps a million , perhaps more . |
| 15 | There was considerable destruction in Afghanistan itself : between a quarter and a fifth of the population became refugees , perhaps a million Afghans died , and a series of civil and military objects including roads , bridges and airfields were destroyed . |
| 16 | I tell you something I was amazed at erm the reading book he appeared with , Fluff and Nip and goodness knows what that went out with the ark when I came out of college , I do n't know whether they 're all reading that or whether it 's just sort of found them and must of been just perhaps a one off or something , but , I was amazed |
| 17 | Although Adrian is the Olympic champion , we both held the world record and Adrian has had perhaps a four year head start on myself . |
| 18 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
| 19 | could use the same report cover by printing a s perhaps a thousand of those . |
| 20 | Perhaps a thousand times more evil . |
| 21 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |
| 22 | Such programs take a comprehensive analysis ( more than twenty elements ) on each sample in turn , and compare it with perhaps a hundred to two hundred other samples to try to find a close ‘ match ’ . |
| 23 | He owned a very large portion of Southern Bohemia , perhaps a hundred thousand hectares . |
| 24 | After half an hour , flesh-pink dunes , perhaps a hundred feet high , appeared several miles ahead . |
| 25 | The hamlet I live in consists of thirty houses and perhaps a hundred souls and sits immediately astride the River Itchen . |
| 26 | At a level above that is assembly language whose commands normally translate into a set , of ten or perhaps a hundred , machine language commands . |
| 27 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 28 | They had walked , perhaps a hundred and fifty yards . |
| 29 | The platform was dead black — an ovoid perhaps a hundred metres long by fifty in circumference . |
| 30 | In the army of the Kha-Khan they would be leaders of ten , or perhaps a hundred . |