Example sentences of "a far [num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his office he had a blackboard , on which he transcribed diagrammatic models of the action , with letters of the ordinary alphabet for characters already invented and letters of the Greek alphabet for those whom he might need to invent ; he was contemplating a further six months of composition . |
| 2 | Returning from a visit to East Africa in the first week of February , Chalker announced that the UK would send a further 20,000 tonnes of food , worth £4,000,000 ( US$7,800,000 ) , in response to an appeal from the UN World Food Programme . |
| 3 | Speaking to a joint meeting of the University and Central Region officials recently , Professor Michael Jackson , Deputy Principal , estimated that the University now supports in excess of 2800 jobs in the Region ( 1380 employees and a further 1500 jobs in support services ) . |
| 4 | There would also be a further 7,000 jobs in building supply , sub-contracting and engineering firms . |
| 5 | Additional discontent among former contras , who claimed that the government had reneged on promises to give them land , led to armed clashes and to promises from Chamorro to distribute a further 23,000 hectares of land in the south-eastern Boaco and Chontales provinces . |
| 6 | This resulted in the inclusion of a further four cases in addition to the 27 previously registered . |
| 7 | He spent four hours with the therapist who administered it to him and supervised his acid trip , and he remained under a structured hallucinatory influence for a further five hours at home . |
| 8 | It brings to 10 the number of hotels operated by Worldwide Inns in China , with a further five properties under construction . |
| 9 | A SITE inspection panel is recommending refusal of an application to build a further five dwellings on land at Aberceiro Farm , Llandre , near Aberystwyth . |
| 10 | Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default . |
| 11 | The judge ordered seizure of his assets totalling £36,200 or Fraser would serve a further 18 months in jail . |
| 12 | The captain 's ‘ Let's go back to the butts , gentlemen ’ is the signal to start a further two hours of shooting . |
| 13 | Subsequently a further two cases of retinoblastoma linked to Seascale came to light . |
| 14 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 15 | With World War II came one more hit , Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary ? ( 1944 ) , which Lynn produced and played for more than two years at the Duke of York 's Theatre and a further two years on tour . |
| 16 | During Year 43 , the company purchased 1,000 units of Game X at £8.00 each and a further 500 units of Game X at £8.50 each . |
| 17 | Mubarak , in accordance with the Constitution , appointed a further 10 delegates by decree on Dec. 10 . |
| 18 | 7 A girl bakes G cakes at school and a further 5 cakes at home , to make a dozen altogether . |
| 19 | Almost 200 places , in addition to those in shelters which I have mentioned , have opened this month , and we expect a further 120 places in winter shelters to open very shortly . |
| 20 | In 1898 a second well was bored to a depth of 398 ft supplying a further 24,000 gallons per hour , and by 1907 these two wells operated by two steam driven pumps were supplying 250 million gallons yearly , and in July of that year a record was reached of 1 1/2 million gallons in one day . |
| 21 | This started with the Compair-Holman factory announcing a cut of 500 jobs in its workforce , together with a further 1,500 jobs at risk and 2,500 other jobs in dependent businesses left insecure . |
| 22 | The stock market , whose index had fallen throughout 1990 , lost a further 7.5 points in response to the package . |
| 23 | The accusation ( the first to be made against Barry publicly and under oath ) came as Lewis pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiring to purchase crack , as part of a plea bargain in which the prosecution dropped a further 15 charges in return for the assistance of Lewis in investigating Barry . |
| 24 | Would another referral to the Restrictive Practices Court now be possible , on the basis of the changes produced by a further 30 years of publishing , UK entry into the European Community , and this recent decision of the European Court of Justice ? |
| 25 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 26 | Grain production in 1991/92 was 180,000,000 tonnes — 20,000,000 tonnes over EC needs ; a further 20,000,000 tonnes of grain were in intervention storage . |
| 27 | There is also an entitlement to maternity pay for six weeks at 90% of pay and a further 12 weeks on maternity benefit . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Ideally the Premier League needed a further 12 months of planning . |
| 29 | Chartered clinical psychologists are not allowed to use that title until they have completed a degree in psychology plus a further three years of postgraduate training and supervised practice . |
| 30 | Even if the application is dismissed , the tenant 's tenancy will continue for a further three months plus time for appeal , which is currently four weeks . |