Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to maintain a close relationship with northern clients , a small office was opened in Manchester in 1985 and a Leeds office was opened in 1988 . |
| 2 | Sales were split 50–50 and a set fee was advanced per month on the legal basis of a three-year agreement . |
| 3 | However , it was in March 1917 that a fighting body was founded in Italy , led by Mussolini , called Fascists , who were avowed anti-communists and anti-socialists . |
| 4 | It was reduced to only two dozen cows during the 1970s but a breed society was formed in 1984 and numbers have increased to about 100 , with a large bank of frozen semen ; it remains severely endangered . |
| 5 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
| 6 | Seven of these cows and one of the bulls , along with two bull calves , were taken into the care of the Ministry of Agriculture 's senior livestock officer for Scotland in 1958 and a nucleus herd was gradually built up and monitored , with the practical support of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in due course . |
| 7 | As a result of the demonstration the Estonian Supreme Soviet announced on May 16 that a Home Guard was being set up to defend government buildings , and the Tallinn city council placed a temporary ban on the organization responsible for calling the demonstration , the United Council of Work Collectives . |
| 8 | Sarajevo airport was closed on Dec. 1 after a UN plane was hit by small-arms fire and remained closed for three weeks due to fighting . |
| 9 | Ironic as it may seem today , modern redundancy law developed from the belief in the 1960s that a state scheme was needed as an incentive to job mobility at a time of chronic labour shortage . |
| 10 | Thirty two and a half maximum was n't it ? |
| 11 | Murray , who was twenty four and a trainee teacher was murdered last Saturday night as he walked through the town with friends from his college rugby team . |
| 12 | The UN office in Beirut had made an unprecedented announcement on Oct. 20 that a US hostage was to be released within 24 hours , following talks between the UN Secretary-General 's special envoy , Giandomenico Picco , and a representative of the hostage takers . |