Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 2 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 3 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 4 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 5 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 6 | He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ . |
| 7 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 8 | This can be done by direct measurements of the maximum dimension of a hundred grains through a calibrated eye piece graticule , or on a screen , followed by calculation of the standard deviation of these dimensions and application of a conversion equation which adjusts this value for the effects of random sectioning ( e.g. Harrell & eriksson , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 11 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 12 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 13 | Sales of the present Milan missile have already exceeded a quarter of a million rounds at a cost of several thousand pounds each . |
| 14 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 15 | I found this difficult to believe , but erm judging by the number of pigeon forecasts , race forecasts that we issue , erm we 're very often talking about a quarter of a million pigeons at a time flying from A to B , and we provide the forecasts for these federations that race these pigeons , and there are a lot of pigeons flying about . |
| 16 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 17 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 18 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 19 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 20 | Pennano had leaked an " alternative economic plan " , advocating indexation of salaries and key prices and the creation of a new inti with a fixed parity against the US dollar . |
| 21 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |
| 22 | The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel . |
| 23 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 24 | I knew the paths well and it was a journey of a few kilometres as the crow flies or , as they say in Italy , a volo d'uccello . |
| 25 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 26 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 27 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 28 | Pathos is created only by the sacrifice of a few members of the virtuous side , mostly old ones like Théoden or Dáin , or peripheral ones like Háma and Halbarad and the list of mere names in the Rohan dirge after the Pelennor Fields . |
| 29 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |
| 30 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |