Example sentences of "[prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the adventurers return to this room after a first encounter , the puppets ‘ remember ’ the events of the first meeting and will make suitably sarcastic comments . |
| 32 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 33 | The advice offered in Chapter 8 on more effective reading was that you should only begin to take notes after a first reading — when you 've grasped the structure and got the gist of the topic being dealt with . |
| 34 | Frankie had nothing much more to offer till they signed to Zang Tumb Tuum ( ZTT ) the label ( named after a First World War futurist magazine ) formed by New Musical Express ( NME ) theorist , Paul Morley , and Dollar/ABC/Malcolm McLaren producer , Trevor Horn . |
| 35 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 36 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 37 | However , they were also quite pricey , as they could well afford to be , so I designed my own after a first disaster with one of the Ken Smith ledger rods . |
| 38 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 39 | After a first session on June 8 near Brno , Klaus declared that the two sides ' views were " fundamentally different " . |
| 40 | After a first phase of innovation competition to establish liquid niches in interest rate and share index markets , there is likely to be a phase of consolidation and rationalisation . |
| 41 | Kim Campbell , 46 , was ahead after a first ballot , but she fell short of a majority needed to succeed Brian Mulroney as the country 's next prime minister . |
| 42 | McLure , the Spons-A-Tee Northern Amateur Masters Champion picked up valuable points towards retaining the title thanks to his win at Seaton Carew , but he looked out of it after a first round 79 , despite a birdie at the 18th . |
| 43 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 44 | In their latest letters , the group , named after a 14th century rebel prince , threaten : ‘ We must cut the cancer of the Englishmen out . ’ |
| 45 | These two then chase after a third and then a fourth . |
| 46 | SECURITY chiefs fear a wave of revenge killings after a third victim of a betting shop gun and grenade attack died in hospital . |
| 47 | TOP STORES were slammed yesterday after a third of their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs . |
| 48 | After a third attempt at oesophogoscopy in March 1978 a picture consistent with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was found . |
| 49 | * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection . |
| 50 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 51 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 52 | Colin Montgomerie finished one ahead of Olazabal after a last round of 70 and thinks he has benefited much from his four weeks in the United States . |
| 53 | John McEnroe will announce his immediate retirement from the professional circuit after a last appearance at Wimbledon — ‘ you can not be serious . ’ |
| 54 | Credit to the team , however , who rose above the boycott , preserving a remarkable sequence of success at fortress Kensington , 11 wins on the trot now , after a last defeat way back in 1934–35 . |
| 55 | It was still raining steadily when she 'd put him to bed , after a last half-hour of television and a couple of chapters of Stig of the Dump . |
| 56 | Then they stepped into the airlock , after a last lingering gaze between Mala and her Ardakkean . |
| 57 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |
| 58 | The Fayre , at Hillersland near Coleford , took place after a last minute legal battle to overturn a music licence ban . |
| 59 | So after a last minute practise session on the open road it 's off to the Aylesbury test centre … no chequered flag in prospect but the possible thrill of discarding those rather embarassing Learner plates for the world 's best . |
| 60 | WESTMINSTER PARK led the way in the North Cheshire League Cup competition after a last ball win at Runcorn . |