Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 2 | By giving Best a contract of less than a year , the RFU have asked the ultimate pragmatist to devise the most foolproof method of extending his own tenure — and that 's the safety-first approach . |
| 3 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 4 | According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 5 | The Sejm 's draft bill provided for the direct election of less than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies , with the remaining seats distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 6 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 7 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 8 | The established system may let the Conservatives into office with less than half the popular vote , but it also invites the prospect of a future Labour Government elected to office on perhaps 32 per cent of the vote and with the support of less than a quarter of the electorate as a whole . |
| 9 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |
| 10 | The well-planned attack led to a campaign of less than a year . |
| 11 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 12 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 13 | This self-propelled weapon was not yet a serious threat ; it still had an effective range of less than a mile , but the tiny torpedo-boats which were beginning to make their appearance heralded a whole new range of warships for the future . |
| 14 | TRAINS moved vital supplies into Soviet Armenia yesterday , ending a blockade of more than a month by workers in neighbouring Azerbaijan , Reuter reports . |
| 15 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 16 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 17 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 19 | 4.1 the Rent payable without any deduction by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days in every year and proportionately for any period of less than a year the first such payment being a proportionate sum in respect of the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date to and including the day before the quarter day next after the Rent Commencement Date to be paid on the date of this Lease and |
| 20 | Further , the minimum amount on which interest must be paid when held for any period of less than a week , if it is fair and reasonable to do so , has been increased from £10,000 to £20,000 . |
| 21 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 22 | An enemy could not approach him without being under his fire for the distance of more than a half-mile . ’ |
| 23 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 24 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 25 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 26 | During the breeding season , a male will establish a territory of less than a metre in diameter in a stream , and aggressively repel all intruders . |
| 27 | In St Servatius this phenomenon has meant that large areas of the interior walls have been eaten away to a depth of more than a centimetre and the paint layers on the walls are beginning to peel off . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
| 29 | I understand that recent tests undertaken in Germany by PFI , ( the German equivalent to SATRA , the Northamptonshire based Footwear Technology Centre ) , have shown that after over 600 miles of testing , the Head Anatom revealed a reduction in height of less than a millimetre . |
| 30 | A small brownish butterfly with a lifespan of less than a week and a wingspan shorter than your little finger . |