Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , of the 202 cases where a date of birth is known ( see Table 8 ) , only 4 were born in that year ( as compared with 18 born in 1895 ) .
2 They do so normally alongside another approach , the hope being that by putting the two ingredients together a synthesis will appear .
3 But US confidence in dealing with Russia was bolstered soon afterwards by the use of the atomic bomb to defeat Japan , and in the two years following a breakdown in East-West relations occurred which , with the decline of Britain to secondary status , left Europe divided between American and Soviet spheres of influence .
4 Well , a thousand pounds not a lot , Karen , but er it all depends what the , what what you gon na be insured for ?
5 My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question .
6 A hundred yards away a smokeball appeared : the flak was back .
7 Of every 200 16-year-olds just a couple plump for an engineering degree , and only one of those becomes an engineer .
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