Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 2 | Whilst missioner in Cambridgeshire — after a five years ' spell in Oxford he began to — read seriously and painstakingly — and , though untutored and without the benefit of lectures , he gained a degree in Classics at Cambridge University . |
| 3 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 4 | So there 's there we are , and these are ten metres each time , so ten , twenty , thirty and let's say after after a hundred metres fifty forty . |
| 5 | After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is . |
| 6 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 7 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 8 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 9 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 10 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 11 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 12 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 13 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | After a hundred yards , I ask , ‘ Different ? |
| 15 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 16 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 17 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 18 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
| 19 | Antrim , who face defending champions Down at Casement Park , bring in Tony McCrudden for Andy Healy , while Enda McAtamney returns to the squad after a three months suspension . |
| 20 | Now there is additional competition for places in the FA Cup final , following the return to first-team duty of England Under-21 midfielder Gary Owers after a three months absence with a severe pelvic injury , and Welsh international Colin Pascoe , who makes his return after injury in tonight 's reserve match . |
| 21 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 22 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 23 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 24 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 25 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 26 | Battle of a Thousand Woes . |
| 27 | In fourth-century-BC Athens it was possible to buy manuscripts reproduced by hand-copying at relatively low cost , and the scriptoria in which such copying was done — there is a reference in Pliny the Younger to an edition of a thousand copies — remained important through Roman to medieval times . |
| 28 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 29 | Closer , on the other side , he could see the Grampians , a tapestry of a thousand shades of green . |
| 30 | They stepped through , into another world ; a world of ancient delights , of strict order made to seem like casual occurrence , of a thousand shades of green contrasted against the grey of stone , the white of walls , the red of tile . |