Example sentences of "of a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 2 | Airdrie had something of a fifth column working for them . |
| 3 | The battle for ratings will undoubtedly become increasingly influential on programme form and content , as the number of channels proliferates with the spread of satellite and the probability of a fifth terrestrial channel . |
| 4 | They said that James Salperton had turned down the offer of a fifth series and the producers were unwilling to continue without him . |
| 5 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 6 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 7 | of a fifth columnist : our planet |
| 8 | Notice below ( Example 9 ) how Ponchielli begins with small leaps and then , as the melody reaches its climax , expands to leaps of a fifth , a sixth , and a seventh before the theme sinks again to less emotional expression : |
| 9 | Formerly , notes written in the bass clef were written a fourth lower than the required pitch instead of a fifth higher . |
| 10 | RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales . |
| 11 | If perhaps we regard it just as a , a technicality and an amendment of wording and where the statement of case prepared by the officers reads the development of a fifth terminal at Heathrow is supported in principal . |
| 12 | THE waiting time for heart surgery should be dramatically cut with the appointment of a fifth cardiac surgeon at Belfast 's Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 13 | The cDNA clones KOX2 , KOX31 and KOX21 have been completely sequenced : KOX2 maintains an open reading frame throughout its length ( 1136 bp ) which includes four complete ZNF domains and half of a fifth , represented in the 3' half of the cDNA ( Figure 2a ) ; KOX31 ( 972 bp ) contains an open reading frame from its 5' end which encodes five ZNF domains before terminating ( Figure 2b ) ; KOX21 ( 1007 bp ) also contains an open reading frame from its 5' end which encodes eight ZNF domains before terminating ( accession number X69115 ) . |
| 14 | There is the prospect of a 100th goal under Charlton 's inspiring managership and the completion of a first-ever hat-trick of away wins to provide added incentive . |
| 15 | Owing to the curvature of the bridge , the top two notes only of a three- or four-part chord can be sustained . |
| 16 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 17 | Descriptions of the battles themselves are necessarily brief ; again , the main weakness here lies in simple errors of detail , examples being the addition of a ninth infantry regiment of the New Model Army 's order of Battle at Naseby ( there were only eight ) , and the reversal of totals of cavalry and infantry in Lord Byron 's Royalist Army at the Battle of Nantwich . |
| 18 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 19 | Part of a 15th century purse frame . |
| 20 | The Monks who prowl the remains of a 12th Century Monastery . |
| 21 | Acres of woodland and parkland , at the heart of which stand the remains of a 12th Century Cistercian Abbey which inside has exhibitions depicting the history of the monastery and country house . |
| 22 | Splendid collection of historic Polish material — paintings , books documents , arms and armour — housed in a fine late 17th century house and in part of a 12th century manor house . |
| 23 | A similar difficulty can be seen in the work of a twentieth century critic , Rayner Unwin . |
| 24 | A full fixture list is in place for six senior teams , with the introduction of a 3rd XI on Sundays . |
| 25 | The second item could be part of a 2nd century trumpet brooch or earring . |
| 26 | Castle Coch , a folly built on the site of a 13th century ruin by the Marquess of Bute , rises out of the wooded background . |
| 27 | Judith Weir 's The Consolations of Scholarship — a music drama in the form of a 13th to 14th-century Chinese Yuan opera . |
| 28 | Karajan does everything in his power to do just that , whereas Rozhdestvensky is clearly convinced that is more the Romantic offspring of a late-Eighteenth Century Classical genre . |
| 29 | Together , these mosaics suggest a late-second century development of the elements of centralised and curvilinear design , with the mosaics from North Leigh , Colchester , and Verulamium illustrating the culmination of a late-second century trend . |
| 30 | Costs are related to a standard 30-second rate with shorter commercials carrying a ‘ weighting ’ , so that a 20-second spot costs 80 per cent of a 30-second spot . |