Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 2 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 3 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 5 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |