Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 2 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 3 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 4 | Police have released a video of a man who carried out three robberies including one where a shot was fired . |
| 5 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 6 | Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats . |
| 7 | The highlight of this sale of Victorian pictures , drawings and watercolours is undoubtedly ‘ Contradiction : Oberon and Titania ’ painted by Richard Dadd in 1854–1858 while a patient at Bethlem Hospital . |
| 8 | Daphne Hereward has been teaching at the Ghana Empire school in Accra since 1977 after a career devoted to classical and archaeological studies and teaching , in both university and school . |
| 9 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 10 | Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 . |