Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to call a strike without a ballot was provided by the result of a 1981 ballot on the principle of fighting pit closures ( where the grounds were economic ; the NUM was prepared to accept closures if they agreed that the pits were ‘ worked out ’ ) . |
| 2 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 3 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 4 | Ermine negligées ; bath in milk , numerous underpanties , chemises and other intimate items , all of which look like a million dollars on the svelte Ralston figure , just round enough . ’ |
| 5 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 6 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 7 | and you send it off and they send you a booklet where you pick a holiday and this go-kart worth a thousand pound on the so they 're having to do that you see . |
| 8 | Guildford duly collected the crown with a 12–6 win on the Isle of Wight , but Chelmsford coach Brad Doshan believes the final placings could actually work out in his team 's favour . |
| 9 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 10 | official political recognition were subject to examination by a committee established under a 1981 law on the registration of political parties ; this law was amended in May 1989 to secure the representation on the committee of the Intelligence and Security Ministry — see p. 37422 . ) |
| 11 | Thin beads of light were pulsing from a dozen locations on the convoluted spiral arms of the space station . |
| 12 | Hence the choice of dates in a 1989 study on the market by Drexel Burnham Lambert , chief publicist for the instrument : |
| 13 | Only three years earlier , a similar symposium resulted in a 1986 volume on the same subject by one of the authors . |
| 14 | If I 'm a teacher I would rather teach ‘ See Jane run … … ’ to a million people on the road to thinking and articulating themselves , instead of just one individual . |
| 15 | At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound . |
| 16 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |