Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fritz Bank foreign exchange dealer in Frankfurt might quote the exporter a three months ' DM forward rate at a premium of DM0.05–0.04 . |
| 2 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 3 | All the genes in that individual would be copies , with or without modification , of genes in a single ancestor a million generations ago . |
| 4 | As a result a one day seminar was held in August and enclosed is a complimentary copy of the report from the seminar . |
| 5 | It was Hall 's goal that gave Alton College a 1–0 win over Barton Peveril in the quarter-finals . |
| 6 | Ajax , three-times winners of the European Cup , reached the UEFA Cup Final for the first time when last night 's 1–1 draw with Genoa gave the Dutch club a 4–3 aggregate win . |
| 7 | And he said , ‘ I have in my mind a million notes , and every one which is not perfect makes me mad . ’ |
| 8 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 9 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 10 | Move along , say , to Greenwich Village at the six-and- a -half mile mark . |
| 11 | And it amounts to , in effect a twelve point five percent decrease in housing provision . |
| 12 | The two were less than two centuries apart , but it brings back to mind Flecker 's verses To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence , which ends : |
| 13 | in one of those papers , there is a figure a hundred percent migration forty six thousand . |
| 14 | In this study a 13 year old , when asked about being teased in his comprehensive school , replied , ‘ I should think that in my first week or so there was a fair bit . |
| 15 | A quick break by St Albans in the last minute of the first half saw Ian Plummer score into an open net to give his side a 2–0 half time lead . |
| 16 | Iro , the only Kiwi of undoubted international calibre , made scoring look easy when he received his chance , but in a splendid move between the forwards , Castleford carved the tourists open again before half-time , 19-year-old Paul Crabtree taking a Beardmore pass to give the home side a 20-8 interval lead . |
| 17 | ‘ As I have said repeatedly I believe that in a one-off Test you must give the visiting side a 50–50 chance , even us after our isolation . |
| 18 | As Pontypridd gained the upper hand in the forward exchanges , Jenkins crossed for two tries to give the home side a 19–3 lead at half-time . |
| 19 | Paul Devraux pointed to the fringes of the thicket into which the remnants of the herd had disappeared : the bulk of the small black calf was clearly visible lying dead on its side a dozen paces short of the trees . |
| 20 | Sometimes , especially when the sun was low and blinding , I could not tell whether a dark shape was a rock a hundred yards away or a crag at three miles . |
| 21 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 22 | There is a pleasant little cafe bar a hundred yards down the road and a disco a little further on and far enough away to avoid disturbing the neighbourhood . |
| 23 | Dr Hutchinson , of Ponteland in Northumberland , offered to lend the village a 1967 AEC Merryweather turntable ladder to raise Mr Clayton up the tower at St Michael and All Angels so he could rethread the lanyard . |
| 24 | A hospital employs two pharmacists who each work a 35 hour week . |
| 25 | Before his eyes dull muddy grass turned into soft reflective banks which caught the sun a thousand ways . |
| 26 | It was a smartly restored pub which lovingly recreated the interior design of its psychopathic creator a hundred years ago . |
| 27 | Liszt greatly admired him , and Rubenstein , too , commended Field to his pupils as ‘ a perfectionist who would practise a passage a thousand times . ’ |
| 28 | CASE 1 : when a headword has been specified in the Start column a two possibilities arise as to how the form should be filled in when a number of subsequent entries are also requested to be proofed : |
| 29 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 30 | The yellow silk square that Steve had given him was in his back pocket ; eight boxes of buckshot in each saddlebag ; binoculars in his combat jacket ; two rolls of inch-wide parcel tape ; fifty feet of light line ; steel hammer and hall a dozen steel spikes ; spare combat jacket and two pairs of jungle trousers ; for night work , black cotton roll-neck , black tracksuit bottoms and black cotton gloves ; slacks and a light jumper for Mariana . |