Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
2 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
3 | Clarke drove on for a further 200 metres before stopping and when he did emerge from the van witnesses reported that he was in a confused state . |
4 | The eruption of Krakatoa has some parallels in these respects , for after an impressive opening , the eruption dragged on for a full three months before reaching its climax on 26 and 27 August . |
5 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
6 | So I think drop Mortimer and bring Colimore in for a full ninety minutes and then and and again and again and again . |
7 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
8 | Duncan Shearer and Mixu Paateleinen expected to lead the attack alongside Eoin Jess , the home fans should be in for an exciting ninety minutes . |
9 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
10 | Each eye is about a centimetre across and is packed with up to 4 million light receptors , lit through an opening which can be varied from 3 millimetres down to a tiny 0.4 millimetres . |
11 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
12 | The reason for his agonising experience was an injured knee which kept his time down to a modest four hours 32 seconds . |
13 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
14 | They reached the auto-route du Soleil and settled down to a steady ninety kilometres an hour . |
15 | The scarf was simply to protect her hair-do in that open vehicle as it bowled along at a business-like sixty kilometres per hour and , with the sunglasses , conferred upon her a touch of the Jackie Kennedy chic to which she was innocent enough to aspire . |
16 | We were nevertheless off the ground in around an estimated 500 metres and the initial rate of climb at 90 knots settled down to around 1100 feet per minute . |
17 | He crossed the track on his belly and went on up a further hundred yards before starting his circle . |
18 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
19 | He grew up to a lithe 5 feet 11¼ inches and 10½ stone . |
20 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
21 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast to mark the Battle of the Boyne . |
22 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast today to mark the Battle of the Boyne anniversary . |
23 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
24 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
25 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
26 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
27 | Vaillant Thermocompact wall-hung gas boiler models VC 112E and 182E are now fully approved — BSI Kitemarked and British Gas service listed — for installations with flues up to a nominal five metres in length . |
28 | And if the consultant decides an operation is required , as routine patients , they could face another wait of up to a further 2 years . |
29 | Cats , on the other hand , can hear sounds up to an astonishing 10,000 cycles per second . |
30 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |