Example sentences of "[noun] [n mass] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specimen was taken from the eastern side of the sandbar just as the tide began to ebb and came the day after Kevin had taken a 2 lb 8 oz flounder from the same spot . |
| 2 | In the quarter to June 30 , Nippon Silicon Graphics Inc increased its revenues 20% over the same quarter last year , to the equivalent of $107.9m . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 4 | In the lower montane forests of Costa Rica , however , 23 tree species within the same family , Lauraceae , have the same insect pollinators and bird dispersers . |
| 5 | Hydro reported that net profits in the third quarter of 1991 were NKr 39m ( £1 = NKr 11 ) , compared with NKr 101.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 6 | This book was born out of the Channel 4 Television series of the same name , and so I would like to thank my friend and colleague Susan Eatwell Conte , with whom the original idea was developed and who produced the series . |
| 7 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 8 | " And in the rare event that I should miss , young Mister Deadeye here will be raring to let fly with a deadly Holland and Holland cannon of the same calibre . |
| 9 | I took it upon myself to suggest that two-tone bream are simply another variety of common bream ( not another breed ) just as black fish and bronze fish in the same water are varieties of the same species , and as mirror and leather carp are varieties of the same species . |
| 10 | Although it has come too late to preserve the Snake River salmon in the wild , the ruling could save other salmon species in the same river system , and have far-reaching consequences for the agricultural and industrial economy of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 11 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 12 | Experienced bar and kitchen staff were recruited fairly easily in Melcaster , but it proved difficult to find restaurant staff of the same calibre . |
| 13 | The British branch employs a fund raising team of eleven and an information staff of the same size . |
| 14 | A curiosity in Enescu 's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the same genre but widely separated in time : the two Op. 24 piano sonatas of 1924 and 1935 , for example ( the latter in fact called No. 3 , since the composer confessed that No. 2 existed only in his head and was never written down ) , or the more extreme case of the two Op. 26 cello sonatas of 1898 and 1935 . |
| 15 | The best brace of the week was taken by Bala farmer Hugh Jones who had rainbows weighing 6lb 6oz and 5lb 9oz on the same morning . |
| 16 | Barton does investigate the actor 's work in a more contemporary way and the book is based on the TV series of the same name . |
| 17 | The Climbers is linked to a TV series of the same name and has all the hallmarks of a rush job ; grating , uncorrected mistakes of grammar ; indigestible multi-clause sentences ; and an overall lack of purpose or identity . |
| 18 | Former EastEnders star Nick Berry is preparing to shoot his latest pop video in Scarborough to accompany his new record , Heartbeat , the theme of his TV series of the same name . |