Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State Council gave the armed groups an ultimatum to lay down their arms by March 30 and to open transport routes . |
| 2 | The pilot results were promising and showed that the POI systems were used an average of eight times an hour . |
| 3 | New Year 's Eve is the busiest period of the year for emergency services , with up to 300 calls an hour . |
| 4 | In medieval times an effigy of the saint was met and escorted into the town by crowds of people , but this was frowned upon at the time of the Reformation and the effigy was replaced by a man dressed in white robes . |
| 5 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 6 | Indeed , it seems that in some cases an interpretation in terms of emphasis is quite inappropriate . |
| 7 | In some cases an exercise test performed by the hospital will provide additional information , but this is often not possible because the hospital 's exercise test is usually performed off their rate-slowing drug so that the coronary arteries can be more fully assessed . |
| 8 | Selection was based upon written tests in English and mathematics , a report from a primary school , in some cases an interview , and — most important of all during the heyday of mental testing — an IQ score . |
| 9 | In some cases an experiment in progress was transformed in design and intention by a result coming from elsewhere in the lab . |
| 10 | A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … . |
| 11 | Summary In this chapter , we have described the different forms an argument in literary studies can take . |
| 12 | If speed 3 is selected it literally blows the water out from the spray bar and would turn the vat contents over at least 12 times an hour . |
| 13 | Trials in the village of Enstone found up to forty drivers an hour breaking the thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 14 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 15 | The main purpose of advertising the application for an O licence is to give local residents and other interested parties an opportunity to raise any objections to or comments on the proposed licence . |
| 16 | The re-emergence of the Soviet Union from its self-imposed isolation offers British companies an alternative to the saturated consumer markets and cartelised suppliers of western Europe . |
| 17 | The third period , beginning after the Second World War , had distinctive features of its own , above all in Western Europe : a greater degree of government intervention in the economy , particularly in the construction of welfare states ; a continuation , and in some countries an extension , of wartime planning , and an expansion of public ownership or of various forms of ‘ social partnership ’ . |
| 18 | And here 's a simple sum : they reckon 700 visitors an hour could visit Canary Wharf though it would take at least 200 MILLION visitors to meet the development 's £600 million debts . |
| 19 | Himself a farmer , almost for 30 years an MP , now with almost a year as minister under his belt , Sir Hector was his usual affable self , seldom referring to his backing group of Scottish Office specialists . |
| 20 | For example , the following passage dealing with a remedy against temptation contains in some manuscripts an expansion which is here taken from B.L . |
| 21 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 22 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 23 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
| 24 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 25 | Goodlad 's ideas have received some outside encouragement : the Royal Society of Arts gave his course on communication of scientific ideas an Education for Capability award for providing an effective combination of academic reflection and the learning of practical skills in communication of ideas . |
| 26 | Earning a basic wage of around 30 cents an hour , they are forced to spend most of the year away from their families living in the very poor hostel accommodation provided . |
| 27 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 28 | ‘ Were the French envoys an exception , particularly in the days preceding his death ? ’ |
| 29 | After all , Louisiana went for Dollars15m and Alaska fetched only $7.2m — about 2 cents an acre . |
| 30 | But the chief aim was to construct what was in some ways an analogue of the dynamics of the personnel situation which could be watched almost while it moved . |