Example sentences of "and [num] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 2 | In both of these there can be seen by the 1880s and 1890s an anxious defensiveness , a feeling that the nation 's value and importance must be asserted in the face of more successful rivals . |
| 3 | And they paid me sixteen and six an hour for the tractor and a mower and myself . |
| 4 | Their study shows that between 1950 and 1975 an already urban continent underwent further urbanization , with metropolitan areas gaining over 39 million people . |
| 5 | It was one and three an hour . |
| 6 | Indeterminate colitis — six patients had a subtotal colectomy before diagnosis , three having had an ileorectal anastomosis and three an ileostomy with a retained rectal stump . |
| 7 | In the UK , one-fifth of coronary care units operate an age-related admission policy , and two-fifths an age-related thrombolysis policy . |
| 8 | The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city . |
| 9 | Between 1961 and 1976 an average of about 12 birds was recorded each year , and monthly totals were : |
| 10 | Young Guard , one of the most popular of this type of journal , had a circulation of only 9,000 in 1922 , and dropped to between 5,000 and 6,000 an issue by 1926 . |
| 11 | Indeed , so popular were indulgences that during 1498 and 1499 an estimated 2000 English priests were obliged to request plenary indulgences from the pope on behalf of their lay parishioners . |
| 12 | Between 1963 and 1974 an attempt was made to measure the abundance and distribution of the common and widespread birds breeding in Sussex woodlands by a series of sample censuses . |
| 13 | To be honest I ca n't remember , I know my lot on the last thing Wigan was doing two hundred and thirty an hour , so twelve times twenty , two hundred and thirty |