Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 300 years part of the Minister 's stipend in Govan was the first salmon drawn from the river each year , but this was 1902 . |
| 2 | The committee also agreed , by 39 votes to 17 , to defer for 12 months consideration of a proposal to close the village school at Abersoch . |
| 3 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 4 | ONE of top all round sportsmen retires this summer after 45 years service with the company . |
| 5 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |
| 6 | EIRLYS Morgan has retired after 27 years service in the canteen at Penygloddfa primary school , Newtown . |
| 7 | They are also proud they have managed to build up a good trade but after 15 years service at the Travellers Rest , Cockerton , the couple plan to quit in June . |
| 8 | Martin Schofield retired at the end of May after 40 years service with the company . |
| 9 | Carsten Ree , the Danish publisher sponsoring the salvage project , said 16 torpedoes had been found after four days work inside the sub . |
| 10 | The Neptune is situated in the countryside about 6–7 minutes walk from the lake , near to the Hotel Form . |
| 11 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 12 | Later in that year , after the queen had been escorted to England , Roos was appointed constable of St Briavel 's Castle ( Gloucestershire ) for life , and , in December , received a grant from the king of 1,500 livres tournois for the defraying of the expenses of his French journey . |
| 13 | Secondly , in accordance with the Wolfenden recommendations Clause 2 of the Bill set a penalty of five years imprisonment for the offence of buggery committed by a man over 21 with a consenting youth over 16 . |
| 14 | Leaders of the three , who will form Britain 's biggest union , agreed on Unison as its title after a competition among members produced a short list of five names market-tested by the designers Wolf Olins . |
| 15 | 1775 " A plan and Estimate of a Church yeard Dyke arround the Kirk of Bowmore , amounting to ffourty four pounds one shilling and seven pence sterling , being produced , which sum Shawfield is to lay out next season , and this meeting stent themselves with the sum of twenty pounds Sterling of the said sum for this year , and agree that the rest of the said sum be stented in following years . " |
| 16 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 17 | The report is the result of four years study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) , a non-governmental organisation funded by scientific organisations in the east and west . |
| 18 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 19 | A couple of hundred yards west of the church track to Elterwater ( 1.5 miles ) . |
| 20 | Liz Watt , cashier clerkess at Grampian TV in Aberdeen , was recently presented with gifts from CCG and Grampian in recognition of 20 years service at the television station . |
| 21 | His word was law within the leuga , an area of 1½ miles radius from the abbey gates ; despite the monastic contrast of personal poverty and corporate wealth , the monks had great influence on the economic life of their new town and Sussex estates . |
| 22 | Moreover , some of Picasso 's painting of 1906 bears testimony in a very direct way to his admiration for this Spanish master . |
| 23 | In the latest training exercise , aircrews with six months experience of the Hercules have been practising cargo drops from just two hundred and fifty feet . |
| 24 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 25 | That could fall next time because Huntingdon — with 93,000 voters way over the 69,281 limit — is likely to be split in two . |
| 26 | The British Fourth Army attacked with 13 divisions north of the River Somme on a front of some 24kml/15smls ; five divisions of the French Sixth Army attacked astride , but mostly south , of the river . |
| 27 | Otherwise the small single room was almost bare ; a bed in one corner , a dresser before the single window , a small table with two chairs flat against the far wall . |
| 28 | Ronald Bateman and James William Kelly , who both still serve as committeemen , are to receive the CIU 's long service award for 25 years work with the club . |
| 29 | — CIU Honours Alan Frank , committeeman at Shotton Colliery WMC ( the Palms ) received the long service certificate and badge for 25 years service to the club and Ralph Kipling , vice-chairman at Cockfield Social Club for more than 17 years , was presented with the long service award by Durham CIU branch secretary Jack Amos . |
| 30 | ‘ The board should , however , make clear that his position would be reviewed in 12 months time by the board , led by a new chairman and vice-chairman . ’ |