Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 2 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 3 | The brewery was closed by Brent Walker in 1989 but a management team bought the site and restarted brewing a year later . |
| 4 | A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan . |
| 5 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 6 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 7 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 8 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 9 | In elections for the mayor and communal council for the town of Monaco in February and March 1991 Jean-Louis Médecin ( mayor since 1971 and a member of the AC list ) was replaced by Anne-Marie Campora , who headed the EC list . |
| 10 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 11 | A transfer tribunal has valued Swindon Town 's former captain Colin Calderwood at one and a quarter million pounds . |
| 12 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 13 | The designer can remove the violation by one or a combination of three courses of action . |
| 14 | Royal Dutch/Shell , the Teikoku Oil Co of Japan , Benton Oil and Gas of the USA , and two private Venezuelan companies , Vincler and Lingoteras , were expected to invest US$480,000,000 in the oilfields by 1996 and a total of US$720,000,000 over the following decade . |
| 15 | If you are using Fisherman 's rib or tuck stitch , the fabric will stretch widthways when removed from the machine , so you will need to increase the stitch by one and a half or two numbers to prevent a tight cast off . |
| 16 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 17 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 18 | With the drive cache disabled , it turned in a power rating of 14,203 and a WinTach rating of 3.75 , which is n't bad . |
| 19 | However with 95% ile river flow upstream of the wroks discharge of 77.9 l/s ( ref 1990 Report by Almond Study Group ) giving a dilution ratio to dwf of 2.5 and a Class 4 classification the FRPB propose to impose higher consent standards . |
| 20 | Although this fragment size could conceivably represent an internal exon splice indicating the presence of one and a half type III repeats being spliced , sequence analysis of the cloned 650bp fragment from the different cell types did not correspond to any of the known tenascin type III repeats . |
| 21 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 22 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |
| 23 | The cost of care for the first ten years from now on was taken by Mr on his calculations to amount to two hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence , using a multiplier of four and a multiplicand of fifty three thousand four hundred and sixty pounds and ninety eight pence . |
| 24 | For reasons of national security a law of 1837 and a decree-law of 1851 conferred on the state a monopoly of transmissions by telegraph , and the policing of the airwaves . |
| 25 | Then followed the crash of 1987 and a period of lacklustre performance . |
| 26 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 27 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 28 | They do a run of one and a half to two hours , then return for breakfast . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , already 16 French were dead , including a child of five and a man of 76 . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 'm still using the standard setup : five strings on the treble , five strings on the bass and a range of five and a quarter octaves . |