Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well I am partial to a bit of Severn salmon , ’ Bert continued , ‘ if you promise me that next half tidy salmon that comes your way , you can have the bike for a hundred and fifty . |
| 2 | And finishes off by saying , erm , our Youth Committee Chairman , Roland have a forward looking attitude to developing and improving youth for many years to come , for as many boys as possible , and we would like to apply for a grant for a thousand pound to cover the cost of providing these new kits for three teams . |
| 3 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 4 | The daughters of a man who died after breathing asbestos dust are suing his employers British Rail for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 5 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 6 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 7 | US prices go from $2,000 for a 12 user licence to $12,000 for a 250 user copy . |
| 8 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 9 | Tyne Tunnel Trading Estates Ltd. were seeking planning permission for a 360 000 sq . |
| 10 | The County Council had given permission for a 70 acre toxic waste dump in Ringaskiddy on part of the 1000 acres owned by the IDA — there was that threat over people 's heads . |
| 11 | The company has lodged an application with Livingston Development Corporation for planning permission for a 60,000 sq ft extension to its facilities in Houston Industrial Estate to accommodate 91 of the new jobs . |
| 12 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 13 | Recently a large 6000m 2 custom Axminster contract for a five star international hotel in southern Sweden was won against stiff opposition from the U.K. and in Berlin , Stoddard Mattor are one of two finalists in quoting for a 10,000 square metre hotel project . |
| 14 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 15 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 16 | As for the industry 's registered dock labour force , the Government made provision for a three year redundancy scheme , jointly financed by the Government and the employer of any dockers who were ‘ surplus to requirements ’ . |
| 17 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 18 | Employees were awarded sums of money between a hundred pounds and fifteen thousand pounds to tackle projects in partnership with national or local voluntary organisations . |
| 19 | Glen Robson ( Tredegar ) was in a deep bend opposite the Longworth Mill barn and fished over depth with a stick float and single maggot on a 20 hook for a dozen dace weighing 2–0–0 . |
| 20 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 21 | But there 's no hope for a fifty mile an hour limit along the whole road because some sections have already been made dual carriageway . |
| 22 | That 's what I said , to do that and hope for a three or a six or another five or a king . |
| 23 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 24 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 25 | By this stage no recognised forward had yet to score , but that was soon rectified at Wigan , when John Borthwick came off the bench to score a last gasp winner for a 2–1 victory . |
| 26 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 27 | Other road building plans and in the , in the South East , well in August the Department of Transport er published plans for a five hundred and eighty million pound new road linking Heathrow with the A three . |
| 28 | An opposing faction favoured a ‘ digger commune ’ and resisted plans for a 1 rent , and the presence of London 's somewhat tame Hell 's Angels as a ‘ security force ’ . |
| 29 | Knighton met residents living near 19-acre Brunton Park after unveiling plans for a 30,000 all-seater stadium , hotel , multiplex cinema , restaurant and tropical plant and butterfly kingdom . |
| 30 | Campbell faced more legal problems when he exposed plans for a seventy million pound spy satellite caled Zircon . |