Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [num] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 2 | For Rangers the chance to open up a four point gap on Celtic before the end of October . |
| 3 | Two minutes into the second half Elwood 's drop goal reinforced Ireland 's victory push and within minutes the same player was on target with a penalty to open up a six point gap . |
| 4 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 5 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 6 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 7 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Social Services plan to set up a 24 hour helpline . |
| 9 | With such complacency , it would be an abrogation of our duty to allow two commercial companies to ruin a major industry and its jobs and to wipe out a multi-billion pound investment made on behalf of taxpayers . |
| 10 | There seemed no place for him in the context of an England team battling to wipe out a one goal deficit against a reeling American side in Foxboro . |
| 11 | Fortunately for Marcel Martin and his Rugby World Cup ( RWC ) organising committee the Namibians went into over-drive and , inspired by Mans , managed to turn around a 10–4 half-time deficit to beat the fired-up Zimbabweans 16–10 . |
| 12 | The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% . |