Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will now return to the court on May 25 where she faces a possible two years in prison or an unlimited fine . |
| 2 | He was suffering from the heart disease congestive cardiomyopathy which sent his heart soaring from a normal 70 beats per minute to a dangerous 400 . |
| 3 | With a boost in public increase brought about by the opening of the line extension to Glyndyfrdwy the Railway is now clearly in a higher division with a respectable 5½ miles of operating length . |
| 4 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 5 | A scant two hours from Paris and we were comfortably settled into our lovely rooms at the Chateau de la Muire . |
| 6 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 7 | It is perhaps only incidental that one of the most distinguished fathers of modern political thought , Tom Paine , spent a turbulent six years in Lewes ; he came to the town in 1768 as an excise officer , a job he combined with a local tobacco business . |
| 8 | ‘ I was surprised at Steve , ’ said Dick , after watching the world junior champion clear only a paltry 2.05 metres on Sunday compared to double European Cup winner Grant 's 2.25 . |
| 9 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 10 | A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together . |
| 11 | Most groups managed to raise a few hundred pounds in funds . |
| 12 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 13 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 14 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 15 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 16 | As Pavel stepped out onto the asphalt , he could see the take off of a Cathay Pacific 747 through the chainlink and across a few hundred feet of grass ; it seemed shockingly , dangerously close , and he turned his face away to look toward the main building . |
| 17 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 18 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 19 | A few hundred years of respectability and the attitude was hardening . |
| 20 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 21 | ‘ Beyond this tower there is a garden laid out in the French style — some herb banks , a small rabbit warren , and a few hundred bushes of boxwood . ’ |
| 22 | He followed the main road for a few hundred yards up St Peter 's Hill and then took a track between the main road and the Thames , directly towards Blagrave Farm . |
| 23 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 24 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 25 | Just a few hundred yards from West Mercia police HQ in Worcester and the first of what 's thought to be 28,000 drivers in this area with no tax disc , is pulled in . |
| 26 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 27 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 28 | Together , every few weeks we 'd dismantle the rig and transport it in sections a few hundred miles through swamps and desert and forest . |
| 29 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 30 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |