Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 2 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 3 | Royal Dutch/Shell , the Teikoku Oil Co of Japan , Benton Oil and Gas of the USA , and two private Venezuelan companies , Vincler and Lingoteras , were expected to invest US$480,000,000 in the oilfields by 1996 and a total of US$720,000,000 over the following decade . |
| 4 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 5 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 6 | Police have released a video of a man who carried out three robberies including one where a shot was fired . |
| 7 | This was never more threatened from the right than in the years before 1914 and a leader who had respected constitutional niceties at that time would have driven them out of the system where they could have been far more dangerous . |
| 8 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 9 | Debt renegotiation talks during 1989 failed to achieve Venezuela 's target , proposed in July , of a 50 per cent cut in debt-service payments , and negotiations continued on the basis of a proposed 42 per cent reduction in payments for 1990 and a proposal by creditor banks to reschedule $21,200 million of debt over 17 years . |
| 10 | Despite a few institutional innovations in 1961 and a number of others in 1969 , the WTO remains an administrative , training and ( only since 1969 ) a consultative organisation . |
| 11 | The maintenance of an over-rate of at least 110 overs per six and a half-hour day . |
| 12 | Er , ten centimetres by seventeen and a half . |