Example sentences of "[adj] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You put me one step clear of a chain gang , two miles over the line . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You put me one step clear of a chain gang , two miles over the line . ’ |
| 3 | He slipped on a rigid gold bracelet once he was back in the dressing room and Dominic pulled a curtain clear of a radiator to get more heat into the place . |
| 4 | and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one |
| 5 | Since an element in the reciprocal of a matrix M is defined as the ratio of the cofactor of the corresponding element in M to the determinant |
| 6 | This is an important topic ; it often happens that an approximate reciprocal of a matrix A is known : perhaps from a rough calculation , or one in which an error has been made , or even that belonging to a neighbour matrix of A. Refinement of this approximate reciprocal is then required . |
| 7 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 8 | Just my 1/100 of a punt worth . |
| 9 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 10 | The brains of active control systems are computers that respond within hundredths of a second to the vibrations of an earthquake . |
| 11 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |
| 12 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 13 | Skaardal , well recovered from an ankle problem bothering him at Val d'Isere , was 43 hundredths of a second behind Heinzer and Lasse Arnesen , eighth the previous weekend , 52 hundredths from 19th start number . |
| 14 | The two more able children had counting rates of 11 and 13 hundredths of a second for each step respectively . |
| 15 | For the less able children this increased to 39 and 51 hundredths of a second . |
| 16 | The number in brackets is the number of " ticks " ( one hundredths of a second ) which BBCBASIC(Z80) will wait for a key to be pressed . |
| 17 | Annadale continued their domination of the men 's 1500m with Jim Campbell and Dermot Donnelly who fought out a close finish with Campbell just gaining the verdict by six hundredths of a second in three minutes 47.37 . |
| 18 | Jackson , who earned a total of £40,000 , said : ‘ I was pedestrian away from the blocks and that cost me vital hundredths of a second . |
| 19 | The crowd at the Cleveland County Stadium rose to salute Matthew 's efforts but she finished in 10 mins 20.4 secs , four hundredths of a second outside the qualifying time . |
| 20 | The Seoul Olympian 's time of 56.5 seconds was six hundredths of a second inside the nine-year-old League record . |
| 21 | Longer wavelengths are measured in hundredths of a metre ( centimetre , cm ) , metres ( m ) or in thousands of metres ( kilometre , km ) . |
| 22 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 23 | Normally , aerial photography requires a speed of at least 250th of a second to avoid shake , and some specialists , working from faster planes , insist on 500th ! |
| 24 | Please reserve for me a sixteenth of a page space in the August issue of Folk Roots . |
| 25 | Many users are not at present very demanding of a catalogue . |
| 26 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 27 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 28 | HCS member Ali Haroun said in Brussels on Feb. 26 that half of a total of 50 people killed had been members of the army and gendamerie . |
| 29 | And then you get half of a bottle of wine as well or something . |
| 30 | Look at LD-50 — that 's a mandatory test to establish the concentration of a product which will kill at least half of a test group of animals . |