Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 2 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 3 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 4 | Windows 3.1 requires at least a 80286 processor , 1MB of memory , a hard disc with 10 MB free and a DOS of 3.1 or later . |
| 5 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | A dose of 20 per cent less than the LD 50 will kill few and a dose of 20 per cent more will kill over 90 per cent ’ . |
| 9 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 10 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 11 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 12 | IRNA said on Feb. 26 that a total of 9,657 refugees from 27 countries had fled to Iran from Iraq since the outbreak of the war . |
| 13 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 14 | I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000 . |
| 15 | He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 . |
| 16 | Zeta is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 3.6 to 4.1 and a period of 1.67 days ; suitable comparisons are Eta ( 4.4 ) , Delta and Chi Eridani ( 3.7 ) . |
| 17 | The trial was analysed up to the 31 January 1991 and a minimum of 16 months after the last patient was recruited into the study . |
| 18 | Lamb rampaged to 50 with a six and a pull for four in the same Su'a over . |
| 19 | Nearly 1,200 and a petition of 467 names objected . |
| 20 | I 'm 32 and have two children from a first marriage — a daughter of 10 and a son of 13 . |
| 21 | The average rating is thus 100 because a child of ten years old with a mental age of ten will score 100 : — |
| 22 | This barrier becomes intensely noticeable when a member of one species needs urgently to communicate a matter of life or death to a member of another . |
| 23 | An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed . |
| 24 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 25 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
| 26 | Delta Libræ is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 4.8 to 6.1 and a period of 2.33 days . |
| 27 | Finally there is the Cepheid variable T Vulpeculæ , with a range of from 5.4 to 6.1 and a period of 4.4 days . |
| 28 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 30 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |