Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron Church and John Harbour , both representatives for John Murray , retired from the company in December after a joint 88 years with the firm . |
| 2 | After a consistent 14 goals in 14 seasons for Tranmere , Mungall broke the mould this term with his second goal of the campaign against Birmingham . |
| 3 | And after a sparkling three days of racing , the Gold Cup itself provided a dramatic climax to the week . |
| 4 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 5 | — NORTH-East discus champion Helen Middlemass won her specialist event , achieving the qualifying distance with a throw of 34.70 after a winning 9.53 metres in the intermediate shot . |
| 6 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 7 | Mansell had started from the outside of the second row after a troubled two days with the new car . |
| 8 | In other bad news , Japan 's domestic telecommunications giant , NTT , said it would cut another 30,000 jobs between 1994 and 1996 , on top of a planned 40,000 jobs to be lost between 1990 and 1993 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Sir Lewis does not intend to rush his decision on the future of the Country Court concept , currently on ice with only six of a planned 20 hotels off the starting blocks . |
| 10 | He must have had the equivalent of a good twelve cups of black coffee . |
| 11 | Village life in this case , is being transformed at the cost of a mere fifteen pounds per villager . |
| 12 | It comes with a knock down tag of a mere 94 calories per glass . |
| 13 | It is unwise to attempt to tackle these various aspects of second stage recovery in any great depth before the completion of a full two years of recovery from primary or family disease because emotional and spiritual recovery may not yet be sufficiently secure to be able to take on these further challenges . |
| 14 | Mozart had written only 50 of a proposed 415 bars of music , and had sketched in the outline of the melody for the next 80 bars . |
| 15 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 16 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 17 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 18 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 19 | When the development officer realised ‘ that she had got to such a low ebb ’ she put in a paid worker for a regular two hours per week . |
| 20 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 21 | For a frenzied seven months in 1944 , Raoul Wallenberg , special envoy of the neutral Swedish government at its embassy in Nazi-occupied Budapest , waged a perilous struggle on behalf of the city 's Jews . |
| 22 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 23 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 24 | Larger leaves like these are best left completely submerged in cold water for a good six hours before being used in arrangements . |
| 25 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 26 | They knocked for a good ten minutes before giving up but it was obvious that the place was deserted . |
| 27 | The Exec Director paused for a good twenty seconds before continuing : ‘ Did they share any women , anything like that ? ’ |
| 28 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 29 | At the death , Mike Procter , the South African coach , stood ashen-faced and speechless for a full 10 minutes on the pavilion steps , unable to take in what had just transpired . |
| 30 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |