Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |
| 2 | It cost a mere eight pounds a week to rent . |
| 3 | However , in a separate report compiled by consultant analyst Brian Sturgess , ‘ The Funding Bible ’ , the BBC is urged to take advertising , predicting that a mere two minutes a day on both BBC1 and BBC2 would net the Corporation £433m by the year 2000 at 1991 prices . |
| 4 | The whole regiment had been cut to emergency rations of a mere three meals a day , and those cold and rain soaked , eaten in miserable silence . |
| 5 | So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years . |
| 6 | Fifty-five years later , Hans Berger , a psychiatrist working in Jena , reported similar fluctuations in humans and discovered that , in a resting subject , this electroencephalogram ( EEG ) oscillated at a regular eight cycles a second , a pattern he called the alpha rhythm . |
| 7 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 8 | The bureau is looking for people with a spare six hours a week who would be able to cope with working in a busy office . |
| 9 | Qualified conductors work a compulsory nineteen hours a week , but most work up to thirty hours as there is so much to do . |
| 10 | Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target . |
| 11 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 12 | Obviously , if you followed a stricter diet , allowing you only 1,000 calories a day , you would draw an additional 500 calories a day from your body fat . |
| 13 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 14 | He said that this ‘ duo bus ’ needs an extra 173 hours a year for maintenance compared with a trolleybus , a diesel bus or any other bus . |
| 15 | More than 250,000 visitors have enjoyed the excitement of the York Model Railway — the land that took over 10,000 hours to build and where our High Speed Intercity train travels an amazing 14 miles a day . |
| 16 | One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day . |
| 17 | The eight-kilometre Somport tunnel , which was to have received funds from the EC , would have cut driving times between France and Spain by two hours and would have been used by an estimated 1,000 trucks a day . |
| 18 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |