Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] a [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Well most of them they saying are six contracts , now they say , say , six month contract or eight month contract or a three month contract , but I just had a couple that were like oh they could be a |
2 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
3 | He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious . |
4 | So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that . |
5 | Pour half into a charlotte russe tin or a 15 cm ( 6 ″ ) cake tin and leave to set . |
6 | Extra tax relief for companies buying new machinery or spending money on key investment and a 20 per cent tax incentive for companies putting up new buildings . |
7 | So Chairman just to in conclusion , we continue , we are proposing to continue this daily expansion of nursery places , our half a million pounds this year would be divided up roughly three hundred and fifty one thousand pounds on revenue and a hundred and fifty thousand pounds on capital and would gain us over four hundred new places , that 's in line with the type of expansion that we achieved |
8 | This included five years with Edinburgh Corporation 's City Engineer 's Department and a four year stint with Lothian Regional Council as transportation engineer in the mid 1970s . |
9 | All he took with him on his voyage was a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a 1992 sports diary with a map of the world , the court heard . |
10 | He says there is a Sun-based banking network linking St Petersburg , Tumin and Moscow up and running with an electronic fund transfer link to the US , 40 Sparcstations at the Dubna Joint Institute for Research and a dozen running Computervision Corp CAD/CAM software down in Taginrog at an engineering firm whose name in English means Red Boilermaker . |
11 | He says there is a Sun-based banking network linking St Petersburg , Tumin and Moscow up and running with an electronic fund transfer link to the US , 40 Sparcstations at the Dubna Joint Institute for Research and a dozen running ComputerVision CAD/CAM software down in Taginrog at an engineering firm whose name in English means Red Boilermaker . |
12 | If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false . |
13 | increase in the Sinn Fein vote and a 34 per cent . |
14 | By January 1944 , Fletcher had command of a B-17 bomber and a ten man crew . |
15 | A hundred pound and a hundred and |
16 | Yet a 1978 pound had the purchasing power of about 2½ 1992 pounds — a larger difference than between a 1991 pound and a 1991 dollar ! |
17 | A showpiece Glass City to celebrate the city 's links with the glass-making industry and a 40,000 seater stadium , which could provide a new home for the football club , are included in the scheme . |
18 | ‘ He 'd have the script and a million questions to ask : ‘ What 's your thought here ? |
19 | Ten here , this side and a hundred up there . |
20 | We tried to get a balance between a Test side and a one day side from the squad . |
21 | The attempt to disrupt the retreat was , however , beaten off , with around 40 casualties , dead and wounded , on the Hanoverian side and a dozen on the Jacobite , and Charles was able to get the rest of his army safely back into Penrith . |
22 | It has a spectacular position on the coast and a 10 minutes walk down a steep drive and across a pebble beach will bring you to the town centre of Lipari . |
23 | Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants . |
24 | Standard equipment includes an electric sunroof , electric front windows , remote control central locking and a 60/40 split folding rear seat . |
25 | In situ hybridizations on tissue sections of zebrafish embryos after 6- , 12- , 24- and 36 hours of development were performed exactly as previously described ( 54 ) using both the entire cDNA insert and a 994 bp Eco RI- Sal I from the 3' untranslated sequence of pou [ c ] as probes . |
26 | You 've got two six ohms , a twelve ohm and a ten ohm , and twelve volts there , so the first thing . |
27 | It had a big crew and a full commercial load — wax and mastic and wormwood seed , six bales of carpets and eighty baskets of sulphur , fifty bundles of silk and five hundred oxhides , two hundred barrels of saltpetre and a hundred bales of Syrian soda . |
28 | For instance , how many people have watched a woman carrying a load of shopping and a three year old child , or cleaning up after an incontinent elderly relation , and still been able to maintain that some jobs are too heavy and dirty for women ? |
29 | Over a two-year period , ‘ Laura Ashley ’ bought from Courtaulds two Stork flat bed printers , one Buser printer , ‘ the Rolls Royce of them all ’ , two pad mangles , a step and repeat machine and a 15,000 lb. boiler . |
30 | If you yearn for the romance of the golden age of sail , try the Island Cruising Club based at Salcombe , which runs a gorgeous 72 ft Edwardian schooner and a 70 ft Brixham sailing trawler . |