Example sentences of "an [adj] [num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |