Example sentences of "[prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peterborough United moved nearer a Third Division play-off place with a 2–0 home win over Bournemouth . |
| 2 | Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens . |
| 3 | The two rode about the parish together , and after a second visit Mr Brown produced a planting plan and a bill for £73.10s . |
| 4 | After a second helping , Alice took Mungo into the lean-to . |
| 5 | After a second teatime breakfast in a café , I set off without delay for Kenny 's Bookshop . |
| 6 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 7 | It suffered so brutally from war and killing that even after a second time around , in ‘ 39 , after the havoc of Korea , the cut and thrust of Malaysia and Aden , the carnage of the Falklands and the bizarre media-encouraged sand-deaths in the Gulf — even after all that , the terrible word ‘ Gallipoli ’ is burned deep into the very fibre of every soul who was born in Bury , or who had family there . |
| 8 | In the Vale of Glamorgan , which the Tories won by 19 votes after a second recount , 64 overseas voters registered in time to vote . |
| 9 | Ian Baker-Finch returned a 68 and jumped into the lead after a second round 66 put him three strokes ahead of Nick Faldo , Lee Trevino and Ballesteros . |
| 10 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 11 | During the addition of user data , dangling cross-references , perhaps reflecting the order in which data is added , are flagged in the first pass and only after a second pass to re-check citations is the possibility of rejection considered . |
| 12 | After a second beer , Dr Reid prepared to leave , explaining that he was going to the dispensary . |
| 13 | Four other consultants did not reply even after a second letter and phone calls to their secretaries . |
| 14 | There followed a day of more mixed climbing and some grade V rock , and then , after a second bivouac , a tiring slog up a huge hanging glacier and an endless snow arête . |
| 15 | This was not maintained after a second night , and after the third night without sleep subjects provided with these incentives could perform no better than those not provided with incentives . |
| 16 | After a second attempt on the Shahs life , in 1965 , he decided ( and the US embassy concurred ) that the Queen should have the power to become regent in the event of his death while their son was still minor . |
| 17 | By Easter term 1292 he was back in the Tower and his lands once more in the king 's hands , apparently after a second conviction . |
| 18 | After a second operation in January 1945 he nevertheless visited Washington in connection with the Far Eastern war and , although dying , he wrote a scientific paper for the sixtieth-birthday tribute to Niels Bohr . |
| 19 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
| 20 | It 's no skin off my nose , she decided finally , after a second glass of punch . |
| 21 | However , after a second round of US-PLO talks in Tunis on March 22 , 1989 , the PLO leadership expressed fears that the USA lacked a specific programme for resolving the Palestinian issue , and was playing for time to secure a halt to the intifada ( " uprising " ) . |
| 22 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 23 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
| 24 | Despite the positive Commons vote , Major announced on Nov. 5 that completion of the ratification process would be delayed until after a second Danish referendum to be held in May 1993 . |
| 25 | Also pardoned was Clair E. George , a former executive within the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who had been convicted on Dec. 9 on two felony charges of perjury and misleading Congress after a second trial [ for ending of first trial see p. 39043 ] . |
| 26 | Part of a town centre was sealed off and buildings evacuated after a second World War Mortar Bomb was discovered at a charity shop . |
| 27 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 28 | By that time Woosnam had advanced from his overnight position of three under par , after a first round of 69 , to seven under , one behind Craig Parry , of Australia . |
| 29 | Grady slipped with a 75 but made the cut , as did Roger Davis with a splendid 68 to retrieve his position after a first round of 77 . |
| 30 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |