Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [prep] [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
| 2 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 3 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |
| 4 | She breastfed her first child for more than a year . |
| 5 | Pupils got on so well with the decorators when the school got its first brush-up for more than a decade that they decided to remember them in a life-size painting . |
| 6 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 7 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 8 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
| 9 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 10 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 11 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 12 | Normally held once a year , this was the third plenum in less than a year ( third plenum , November 1988 ; fourth plenum , June 1989 , to dismiss Zhao Ziyang ; fifth plenum , November 1989 , to rectify the economy ) reflecting the rapid pace of change . |