Example sentences of "by a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of red brick and simple in style , with a massive western tower on square plan , now surmounted by a nineteenth century lantern . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC 's ultimate goal is to become registered by a 3rd party certification body as an organisation of assessed capability . |
| 3 | Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity . |
| 4 | ‘ Much of the poetry studied was contemporary or near-contemporary , although many classes had encountered at least one poem by a first world war poet . ’ |
| 5 | The immediate aftermath was relegation , with the lowest number of points ( 18 ) and goals ( 26 ) ever recorded by a First Division club . |
| 6 | The rain put paid to our next day 's match and consequently we did n't play until towards the end of the tour against the Jonor Rhinos , a team containing four Malaysian internationals , coached by a First Grade Australian ( who also played ) . |
| 7 | Methodism is represented by a first building dated 1897 and a more recent and well-supported church , both in Willerby Square . |
| 8 | The idea of a specially designed dolls ' house for Queen Mary , the wife of King George V , was first conceived in the spring of 1921 by a first cousin of the King , Princess Marie Louise . |
| 9 | In 1977 , at 25 , she won the Mozarteum competition to sing in Salzburg , followed by a first prize in Geneva several weeks later . |
| 10 | As part of the process he resigned as chairman of the ruling MPR and appointed a transitional government headed by a First State Commissioner ( Prime Minister ) . |
| 11 | 3.1 Module descriptors which have been reviewed for session 1987–88 ( eg Music Making modules ) or which are being introduced in session 1987–88 for the first time are identified in the National Catalogue by a first digit 7 . |
| 12 | 3.4 Module descriptors which have been revised for session 1988–89 are identified in the National Certificate Catalogue by a first digit 8 . |
| 13 | 3.2 Module descriptors which have been revised or developed for session 1989–90 are identified in the National Certificate Catalogue by a first digit 9 . |
| 14 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |
| 15 | ‘ We agree there has been a breakdown in communications but hope that from now on we can work together in an open and constructive manner towards our common goal a first class haematology unit run by a first class team of doctors and nurses . |
| 16 | As originally constructed by a ninth cohort , probably of Legio VI , it contained only two or three suites of rooms together with some which are best interpreted as having a communal function.44 There was a small internal courtyard with an ornamental fountain and the old , first-century fort bath-house was rebuilt on a much larger scale . |
| 17 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |
| 18 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 19 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 20 | Thus it was that a caddish cub reporter from the Cricklewood Cricket drew the following response : ‘ A quarter of my age in years multiplied by a fifth of my age in years multiplied by a forty-fifth of my age in years gives my age in years . ’ |
| 21 | The company , which has a 60% market share , has seen sales drop by a fifth since November . |
| 22 | Passenger numbers in America more than doubled in the decade after deregulation , and fares ( adjusted for inflation ) declined by a fifth . |
| 23 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 24 | The need for better planning , and the need to organize and consider training courses within the overall framework of each individual 's development needs was mentioned in various ways , by a fifth of the sample , ( see Table 25 ) , although more often by larger libraries ( see Table 30 ) : |
| 25 | Britain has worked out measures to cut costs by a fifth , by producing a lighter aircraft with fewer hi-tech flight systems . |
| 26 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 27 | Premiums could be cut by a fifth if consultants passed on savings they have made with the increase of private work , said the Norwich Union . |
| 28 | The tired and weak Fourth Republic had finally collapsed in 1958 , to be replaced by a Fifth Republic headed by Charles de Gaulle , whose nationalist prejudices were already well-known . |
| 29 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 30 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |