Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [num] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] .
2 Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback .
3 The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen .
4 It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago .
5 Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats .
6 Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) .
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