Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [num] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 2 | The reverse gradient applies for only one cause of death , malignant melanoma of the skin . |
| 3 | Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage . |
| 4 | Yet sound will always be part of any future media , and I am pleased that sound recordings have reached such high technical and aesthetic standards after only one century of history . |
| 5 | Why , there had been Macphersons grinding flour in the Tollemarche district sixty years ago , and it had taken her years of hard infighting to reach her present exalted rank ; now this woman was , after only twelve months of residence , her vice-president . |
| 6 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 7 | This brings the total number of National Certificates awarded , after only five years of operation , to over 300,000 . |
| 8 | Hunter will fly home on Monday with his tour hopes shattered by a dislocated shoulder after only 39 minutes of action today . |
| 9 | In contrast with that of normal subjects , the biopsy specimens from coeliac patients show a conspicuous staining at the lateral membrane/ intercellular space after only 20 minutes of instillation . |
| 10 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 11 | It ended after just six hours of evidence with the Sheriff making no recommendations . |
| 12 | Lisa split up from Marco after just 15 weeks of marriage . |
| 13 | Many of the coup participants surrendered to General Noriega personally , and more than 200 soldiers who backed the uprising were arrested after nearly five hours of fighting . |
| 14 | After nearly 10 hours of debate the Federal Assembly on April 22 approved by 144 votes to 33 with 47 abstentions the friendship treaty signed with Germany in February 1992 [ see p. 38777 ] . |
| 15 | After nearly four hours of questioning , she was released . |
| 16 | Ultimate said the new facilities , the company 's first after nearly four years of restructuring , are for general working capital purposes . |
| 17 | A castle has just reopened to the public after nearly four years of restoration work . |
| 18 | After nearly 50 years of use , however , its mechanism of action remains obscure . |
| 19 | The poor have lost the ability to campaign after nearly twenty years of repression … |
| 20 | The German government on March 21 announced the abandonment of the Kalkar prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor project , after nearly 20 years of opposition from environmentalists , farmers and the Social Democrat administration of the Land of North-Rhine Westphalia . |
| 21 | After about seventy-two hours of sleep loss , " it is impossible to prevent subjects from obtaining brief " microsleeps " " which ( when EEG measures are made ) have been shown to be indistinguishable from brief periods of natural sleep . |
| 22 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 23 | If , after almost 10 years of revisionism , of U-turns on nuclear weapons , devolution , the European Community , state ownership , trade unions , the sale of council houses and more , Labour is still unelectable , is it now time or even overdue for Labour to pull up its roots and die , making room for an acceptable alternative to another decade of Conservative rule ? |
| 24 | After almost four hours of play , the Meteors proved too strong for the visitors , running out winners 18 — 8 … the Meteors well and truly making a home run . |
| 25 | After almost 20 years of suppression due to the civil war and military regimes , President Yowei Museveni is trying to bring in a more open , humane government which allows freedom of expression . |
| 26 | After over eight years of rule by the strongly pro-US Jamaica Labour Party , a period marked by great hardship as the economy was forcibly ‘ restructured ’ , the February 1989 election returned Michael Manley 's People 's National Party . |
| 27 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Robert Waller of Harris , owned by the American Gannett newspaper group , said political polls account for just 3 p.c. of turnover in non-election years , rising to 10 p.c. in the election year of 1987 . |
| 30 | Claimed battery life is 4 hours , or enough for just 60 sheets of paper . |