Example sentences of "an [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those requiring more there is an addition a 12-month contract available for $150,000 to silicon customers and $75,000 to systems customers . |
| 2 | For those requiring more , there is an addition a 12-month contract available for $150,000 to silicon customers and $75,000 to systems customers . |
| 3 | in an instant a huge wave literally stood straight up at our side , then dashed itself on us with vindictive fury . |
| 4 | With one of the pair in orbit , the interferometer swings around much more rapidly — reducing the time required for observing each source — and the separation is not limited by the size of the Earth : present technology permits a radio telescope in an orbit a hundred times larger , improving the resolution a hundredfold over that possible from Earth |
| 5 | And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in |
| 6 | As part of an assessment a careful written record should be made identifying needs , wants and feelings , resources and unmet needs . |
| 7 | Failing an admission a question to the defendant such as ‘ Where did you intend to go when you got into your car ? ’ or ‘ What were you trying to do ? ’ etc. may help to prove that he had an intention to drive as discussed at point ( B ) 2 ante . |
| 8 | ‘ That you ’ Proof of the identity of an accused exposing his/her person may be difficult and apart from an admission a witness is required to say that the man/woman in the court dock is the person who exposed their person . |
| 9 | We included in an appendix a selection of teaching strategies which provide ‘ ways into texts ’ of whatever genre , period or level of difficulty . |
| 10 | With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . |
| 11 | Finally , I annex by way of an Appendix a schedule of companies who have signed the confidentiality agreement and their status . |
| 12 | It 's a good artist 's sketch of a building , ’ he said , but warned that giving more money to Congress was like giving an alcoholic a liquor store . |
| 13 | Some classes gave as little as half an hour a week to science and , on average , it took only 5 per cent of the timetable . |
| 14 | Courtfield was the happy family home of our founder , Cardinal Herbert Vaughan , whose mother , Eliza , spent an hour a day praying for religious vocations for her thirteen children . |
| 15 | Scientists at Reading University have made a plant-stroking machine which brushes polythene strips over test plant leaves for an hour a day . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Doctor Sparrow recommends that she be allowed to sit out of bed , in a chair , for an hour a day , during the summer months . |
| 17 | Mr Bruce Napier , a chartered clinical psychologist once in charge of the society 's disciplinary procedures , said : ‘ If you go to see a therapist for an hour a week to talk about your most intimate feelings , it is understandable you may develop more powerful feelings for him than you would for your bank manager or solicitor . ’ |
| 18 | The new channel will be obliged , at the start , to offer only half an hour a day of news and only an hour a week of current affairs . |
| 19 | The new channel will be obliged , at the start , to offer only half an hour a day of news and only an hour a week of current affairs . |
| 20 | A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem . |
| 21 | Most people got some informal care , and three-quarters had someone who spent on average at least an hour a day doing things with them or on their behalf . |
| 22 | I used to spend an hour a day on him . ’ |
| 23 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 24 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 25 | After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands . |
| 26 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |
| 27 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 28 | Washing up after every meal can mean you spend around an hour a day sunk in the sink . |
| 29 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 30 | In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over . |