Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's not particularly sensational , and that 's where the drugs and the alcohol abuse level comes across , and that is the emotive term , but what I 'm saying really is the symptoms which that teachers are displaying of stress manifest themselves in an increase in er abuse of alcohol which could only be the odd extra drink , or the odd 5 cigarettes a day , and sleeping tablets , and that becomes an issue when you have n't got a teacher who 's not in control the following day , but you certainly have a teacher who 's not 100% , and that 's where the effect on the child tends to occur . |
| 2 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 3 | STRATHCLYDE has rejected building six incinerators to dispose of the 1.8 million tonnes a year of wet sludge dumped in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 4 | An Indian pilot who flies regularly to Katmandu said the rate of descent once the plane cleared the mountains was about 2,000 feet a minute instead of the usual 600 feet a minute . |
| 5 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 6 | The top five men and women will win vouchers , the top 100 finishers a T-shirt and everyone receives a commemorative mug and certificate . |
| 7 | Although over the preceding 12 months a combination of a deep economic recession , conciliatory gestures from many of the English-speaking provinces , and the skilful diplomacy of Bourassa , had served to cool some of the enthusiasm for independence , the province was due to hold a referendum on the sovereignty issue on Oct. 26 , and Mulroney had made it clear that he was keen to have reached some form of inter-provincial agreement prior to the vote . |
| 8 | Her husband said the extra 1,100 dollars a month would enable her to go into a private nursing home . |
| 9 | The new Headmaster was Mr. Christopher Herman Gilkes , an Oxford graduate and for the previous six years a Housemaster at Uppingham . |
| 10 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 11 | The publication of the paper comes as pressure increases to tackle the estimated 1,000 incidents a week which occur mostly on private land . |
| 12 | Perhaps a million or more Americans now make their own brew , which is tax-free for the first 200 gallons a year . |
| 13 | In the first six years a total of 266 reviews were conducted identifying annual savings of –600m with an additional 67m of one-off savings ( Making Things Happen , 1985 , p. 9 ) . |
| 14 | Actually Dennis and Karen 's ancestors most likely dwelt among the cattle and kine in a wattle-and-daub barrio beneath the castle jakes , but their descendants cultivated a taste for wine and continental cooking , went riding and spent the obligatory two weeks a year in a rented villa in the Dordogne . |
| 15 | As Diane Bailey 's Curtis Cup team were chosen in 1986 that means that in four of the past five years a team have come top of the poll . |
| 16 | However , in the past twenty years a variety of new approaches has evolved , beyond clinics on the one hand and mental hospitals on the other , to provide a more easily accessible ‘ user-friendly ’ , informal ‘ open-door ’ facility . |
| 17 | Council records show in the last 18 months a total of 44 businesses have stopped trading in Darlington including Miniprint , Initial Garments and Stenga Engineering . |
| 18 | In the last 18 months a company has been formed and charitable status obtained . |
| 19 | Additionally , for the last five years a history is kept aggregating the number of days absence by type of absence . |
| 20 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 21 | Over the last twenty years a number of publications concerned with the education of visually handicapped children have given very prescriptive advice on the most suitable seating arrangements for classes which include visually handicapped children . |
| 22 | Over the last 20 years a pint of milk has increased five-fold from 5p to 26p today , and a loaf of bread has gone up from 10p to 47p . |
| 23 | In the next two chapters a theory of the global system based on economic , political , and cultural-ideological transnational practices will be introduced to explain this . |
| 24 | But when one considers the next two stanzas a flaw appears in the untold simplicity we have followed so far . |
| 25 | Within the next two generations a man over six feet will be an oddity rather than a subject of envy . |
| 26 | Over the next two days a lot of hard thinking went into my plan of campaign . |
| 27 | Over the next twenty-four hours a flurry of selling , mainly triggered by our circular , sent the shares of Garth Enterprises down by 40p , and by another 50p on the following day . |
| 28 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |
| 29 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 30 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |