Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [num] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 There in the absence of an E two policy the council has undertaken a full landscape assessment of its area outside the settlement .
2 I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland .
3 This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west .
4 Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture .
5 Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture .
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