Example sentences of "[n mass] in a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings .
2 The fire was the second worst in the city 's history and occurred exactly 79 years after the death of 145 people in a factory fire which had led to the imposition of strict building regulations .
3 For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio .
4 Using a small amount of 32 P in an Eppendorf tube we found beta-count rates of 253.010±496 and 83.4±2.6 ( n= 5 , p<0.001 ) without and with the Eppendorf protector , a more than 3000-fold reduction .
5 All these factors contributed to the increasing IT competence of students in terms of the digitization of texts and graphics in a production process which was more flexible and more cost-effective .
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