Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a reorganisation last year within Telfos Holdings , Hunslet 's parent company , presented the firm with an unmissable opportunity to acquire a 100,000 sq ft factory at Telfos 's headquarters in Leeds . |
| 2 | But a reorganisation last year within Telfos Holdings , Hunslet 's parent company , presented the firm with an unmissable opportunity to acquire a 100,000 sq ft factory at Telfos 's headquarters in Leeds . |
| 3 | Driver got a hundred quid and Some of this ! . |
| 4 | Characters not of Good alignment suffer a -5 penalty to all tests here . |
| 5 | With the decision to include a four track sequencer on the GR-1 , the implications are manifold . |
| 6 | The reason for building a high mutation rate into the model is that the whole performance on the computer screen is for the benefit of human eyes , and humans have n't the patience to wait a million generations for a mutation ! |
| 7 | Students may compete for the BBC Carlton Hobbs award which is given annually to two students from any of the drama schools ; the award offers a six month contract with BBC radio , as well as guaranteeing that vital entry into British Equity . |
| 8 | Between the initiation of the Chilean price index in December 1978 and April 1983 , the index registered a 157.5 per cent increase for low-income families and a 142.7 per cent increase for higher income groups . |
| 9 | A trout can detect the smell of chemicals of shrimp diluted a thousand million times , while the sensitivity of an eel is a thousand million times greater still . |
| 10 | Mum 's bike has a 19 ½in frame and 26in wheels . |
| 11 | Alan Wiggins , managing director of Carlton Garage , with showrooms in Harwich and Clacton , said this would not adversely affect the average company car user driving a 1.6 Vauxhall Cavalier , but would hit those with more expensive models , thus ‘ equalising ’ the market . |
| 12 | Gnoll Park has a 9 hole pitch and putt course available for public use . |
| 13 | Fidelity has a 2 per cent front-end fee and exit charges on a sliding scale — 3 per cent in the first year , 2 per cent in the second , 1 per cent in the third and zero thereafter . |
| 14 | The new jet , which will be ready for launch in 1995 to compete head-on with the European Airbus A330 , where British Aerospace has a 20 per cent stake , and the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 trijet , will be the last major new passenger jet to be launched this century . |
| 15 | The fenestral discovery , incidentally , also filled in a missing link to provide a 300 million year sequence of fossils showing a smooth evolution from reptiles to mammals . |
| 16 | The Thunder Board has a 11 voice FM music synthesiser that is fully AdLib compatible a very large library of games support this standard . |
| 17 | Any missiles shot at a character bearing the Silver Seal suffer a -1 to hit modifier . |
| 18 | But I 've just briefly looked at the education and training part of the General Secretary report and it says here , National College rammed a hundred and twenty four courses over a thirty week period attracting approximately seventeen hundred G M B representatives , a wide range of residential courses . |
| 19 | The study covers a 300 kilometre-wide area of North Continental Europe . |
| 20 | Barnsgate Manor has a 12 acre vineyard , a llama herd , donkeys , a museum , winery , tearooms and restaurant . |
| 21 | Consisting of two and a half acres of glass , two acres of stainless steel cladding and 1,000 tonnes of steel work , the 400 metre long single span terminal roof covers a four level international passenger handling complex . |
| 22 | They signed two protocols which amounted to an attempt to revive a 1987 security protocol directed against the Kurdish separatist guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which Syria had not implemented . |
| 23 | The Bell study proposed a three stage rescue programme . |
| 24 | Littlewoods , the pools promoter , calculates each punter has a 1:39 chance of a win . |
| 25 | The Association wants a six month freeze on troublesome inmates being sent to Bullingdon and an injection of one hundred thousand pounds to provide new leisure facilities . |
| 26 | The so-called Winter of Discontent ( 1978–9 ) generated even more anti-trade-union sentiment , especially as Labour 's attempt to establish a 5 per cent pay norm led to strikes by lorry drivers and the low paid and produced television scenes of ‘ mountains ’ of uncollected refuse ( Scraton , 1985b ) . |
| 27 | Canada 's Laidlaw Transportation has a near-30 per cent ADT holding . |
| 28 | Arco Chemical reported a 46 per cent decline in net profits during 1991 to $188m . |
| 29 | He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost . |
| 30 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |