Example sentences of "[adv] a [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | could use the same report cover by printing a s perhaps a thousand of those . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | It seems that they chase somebody like John who , at the outside may end up after five years owing them perhaps a hundred to two hundred pounds |
| 6 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 7 | Erm so a hundred to the power half , is actually equal to ten , let's say if we did erm sixteen to the power half , times sixteen to the power of a half . |
| 8 | So a six for that one please . |
| 9 | I like the subject , and I like the composition and so on , but it just loses a bit because of the lack of sharpness so a five for that . |
| 10 | The assistant finance officer with the Western Board — the first to been hoped the payroll personnel system would be operational in all boards by 1989 , so a three to four year delay has occurred . |
| 11 | So a seven for that one . |
| 12 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 13 | But there are only a hundred of them , poorly armed , standing against any army of 42,000 troops . |
| 14 | After all , even though 10 was really only a five as a movie , and even though Arthur was an asshole , it 's pretty easy to think fondly of these made-to-Moore middle-age farces . |
| 15 | The apartments are set against a mountain backdrop and the views are superb ; it 's hard to believe that the discos , lively bars and general hustle of Benitses are only a five to ten minute walk away . |
| 16 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 17 | A little misleading in two respects , on is I think the average person does n't realize that it 's very hard to perceive very much of a difference when there 's only a twenty to thirty percent reduction . |
| 18 | There was one thing that might save the mare , and that was only a 10,000 to I chance . |
| 19 | It 's just a one to twenty five thousand , a Pathfinder . |
| 20 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 21 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 22 | Has that been a recurring thing or was it er was it just a one off situation ? |
| 23 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | There were approximately a thousand in each type of provision . |
| 25 | It remained over a million throughout the period , falling back a bit in the middle twenties but then rising steeply in 1930 . |
| 26 | Intel is firm in stating that this device is not a 486 with 386 pin outs and point out that the 486 has cache and burst I/O characteristics that require a 486 design on the main board in order to work properly . |
| 27 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 28 | Not a one of them realized I was not human . |
| 29 | Just under a thousand of vines — but it 's some of the best land there is . |
| 30 | Days lost through strikes fell from more than 29 million in 1979 to under a million in the year to October 1991 . |