Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 2 | Of those whose initial source was parents , most were girls , and more middle-class parents were cited as a first source of information than working-class parents . |
| 3 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 4 | Until very recently the essential oil trade was almost exclusively confined to the perfume and flavours industries — where synthetic or nature identical substances were included without a second thought . |
| 5 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 6 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 7 | Mr. Lennon 's rates were reduced by a third . |
| 8 | The coeliac patients were compared with a third group of 17 children ( mean age 9.7 , range 3–10 years , girls:boys 1.4:1 ) with various diseases or symptoms , such as chronic abdominal pain ( n=8 ) , failure to thrive ( n=6 ) , peptic ulcer ( n=2 ) , and immune deficiency ( n=1 ) . |
| 9 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 10 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |
| 11 | Those meetings were enclosed within a Fifth Force Field , so that no one ever knew what passed between the Emperor and his Adviser of the Computers . |
| 12 | During the exploration of the long arm of chromosome 5 for the APC locus , deletions and point mutations were identified in a second large gene named MCC ( mutated in colorectal cancer ) . |
| 13 | Run-off elections were held in a second round of voting on Feb. 16 and 23 where no candidate had obtained a simple majority in the first round . |
| 14 | Between 1962 and 1970 , numbers were cut by a third , from 127,000 to 83,000 . |
| 15 | The thawed samples were spun at 1000 g for 10 minutes and 500 µl aliquots were taken into a second acid washed plastic tube , diluted 1:9 with ultrapure 0.11 M nitric acid , and analysed by ICPES ( Philips PV 8050 ) at the following wavelengths : potassium 766.49 nm , sodium 588.99 nm , magnesium 383.83 nm , copper 324.75 nm , calcium 315.89 nm , iron 259.94 nm , and zinc 213.86 nm . |
| 16 | The talks were extended for a third day after the Japanese agreed to drop the nuclear inspection demand during the current session . |
| 17 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 18 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |