Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 2 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 3 | Cambridge , for instance , has received a 19 per cent increase in UFC research , but only 2.7 per cent in teaching funds . |
| 4 | Already one firm has developed a 30 W source of this type which gives a light like a 100 W light bulb . |
| 5 | The Queen has broken a four hundred year old taboo by attending a service with all the leaders of England 's christian churches . |
| 6 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 7 | The Ozone Trends Panel , a working party of scientists set up in 1986 by NASA , has calculated a three per cent depletion in stratospheric ozone on a global level since 1969 . |
| 8 | The Soviet-American joint venture ‘ 21st-Century Technologies ’ has given a million roubles and a truckful of restoration materials has arrived in Moscow , courtesy of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt . |
| 9 | Chaired by Alistair Graham , Director of the Industrial Society , the TDLB has formed a 50 strong advisory committee of personnel from industry , training and education to set the standards which will form the basis of vocational qualifications for all training and development personnel . |
| 10 | f He has dropped a dozen fresh eggs . |
| 11 | It has reported a 77 p.c. increase in complaints and cited pension transfer advice as one of the biggest problem areas . |
| 12 | Motor deal : Sanderson Townend & Gilbert has let a 980 sq ft shop at 146 High Street Redcar to Motor World . |
| 13 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 14 | As part of its future direction , ADDS previewed a 3270/X software package for migrating 3270 users to NCR 's Open Cooperative Computing Architecture beginning in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 15 | BR plans more through services to Worcester and Hereford and has forecast a thirty per cent increase in passengers . |
| 16 | Cincinnati , Ohio-based Cincom Systems Inc has won a five year , $10m contract to supply its local area network database software , Supra Server , to the US Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Commercial Communications Offices . |
| 17 | Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems Inc has won a five year , $10m contract to supply its LAN database , Supra Server , to the US Defense Information Systems Agency ( DISA ) and the Defense Commercial Communications Offices . |
| 18 | But the British Government , unconvinced the fastest bikes are more dangerous , has won a five year exemption and an EC Commission promise to produce road safety evidence before Britain will come into line . |
| 19 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 20 | The New Era Housing Association has won a 100 per cent grant for a £245,000 six unit development at Derwent Park , Loftus . |
| 21 | Seeq Technology Inc , Fremont , California has won a six month extension of its $5m bank-credit agreement with Silicon Valley Bank ; the agreement expired on February 15 and now matures on September 30 . |
| 22 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 23 | One of Britain 's oldest breweries has won a two month battle against a hostile takeover bid . |
| 24 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 25 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 26 | A company which makes diesel engines has won a seven million pound contract to supply the United States Military . |
| 27 | For an investor who has selected a 1995 maturity date , BFS says the net asset value would have to fall by 5 per cent over the six years for the investment trust to be unable to pay up . |
| 28 | Jobs have been saved by the announcement that British Aerospace has secured a five hundred million pound deal to sell Hawk trainer jets to Indonesia . |
| 29 | Stories are circulating that Ford will announce it has built a 5 per cent shareholding early next week . |
| 30 | Keith Hall has built a four bedroomed house which he claims is the first in the country to be environment friendly . |