Example sentences of "the [num] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair . |
2 | Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race . |
3 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
4 | After Saturday morning 's clean-up the 11 set out a plastic patio table and chairs , and were helped by town mayor Jackie Pell to stage the birthday party in the river . |
5 | After the war , the two set up a business after a false start in the home-appliance market manufacturing rice cookers . |
6 | The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity . |