Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lockerbie yesterday the 270 victims of the bombing of flight 103 a year ago were remembered . |
| 2 | Japan 's trade surplus with the US widened to $4.37 billion in February , before seasonal adjustment , up from a surplus of $3.68 billion a year earlier . |
| 3 | This compares with a deficit of $1.5 billion a year ago . |
| 4 | The budget also projected an increased deficit for 1992 of a record $400,000 million , compared with an estimate of $281,000 million a year earlier and $350,000 million as recently as the beginning of 1992 . |
| 5 | But he is adamant there will be no change in the British rebate from the Community , worth £2 billion a year in repaid contributions . |
| 6 | The current-account deficit in the USA narrowed to $100,000 million in the second half of 1989 , compared with $125,000 million a year earlier . |
| 7 | It may seem sentimental to wish to see in this return of the young woman to her mother , in a spring in England half a life-time ago , the restoration to her agonized parent of that child snatched in a darker place , a darker time . |
| 8 | There is in fact such a car outside , but the siren I hear is on my son 's hi-fi in the next room . |
| 9 | In fact such a view tacitly rests on one of the ideologies of modernity : a belief in continual progress ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 10 | Queen 's , in Section One a decade ago , are hoping this summer ends with them regaining their place in Section Two . |
| 11 | If he had given the speech that he gave at Bayeux in June 1946 a year earlier , he could have turned the October 1945 referendum and elections into a referendum on his own views . |
| 12 | As a result , the book value of the company 's debt rose from £8.2 billion at the end of 1991 to £10.2 billion a year later , though the dollar equivalent remained virtually unchanged at $15.3 billion . |
| 13 | It is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts , to people half a world away . |
| 14 | Only two months after Sotheby 's Holdings Inc. posted a first quarter loss of $5.7 million ( £3.2 million ; compared to $5.2 million a year earlier ) and following pretty dismal results for 1991 ( profits were 86% down from 1990 ) Alfred Taubman , chairman and largest shareholder , is selling 8 million of his 21.9 million B shares as part of a larger transaction . |
| 15 | The Shah asked for £75 million a year in , military aid for the next three years , but Dulles thought this was excessive . |
| 16 | Valued at £2 billion a year ago , the company is now under administration . |