Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more like a gemstone which has been cut and faceted , so that each way it is turned shows a different angle , catching the light in a thousand different ways . |
| 2 | Gary Callander , the former Scotland hooker , is in cracking form again and , with John Jeffrey staying down and grafting at second row , they took particular encouragement from their scrummaging in an 18-29 defeat by the powerhouse Heriot 's . |
| 3 | Eventually , matters were resolved , and Sewell , after a 3–11 defeat in an 1850–1851 election , was unanimously appointed president of the Royal College in 1852–1853 . |
| 4 | Butcher , who has been scouting for Sheffield Wednesday , turned out for their reserve side in a 2–1 Pontins League victory over Rotherham . |
| 5 | CHRIS O'BRIEN scored a fine hat-trick for Garston Woodcutters but finished on the losing side in an 8-3 defeat against Great Eastern in the South Merseyside MYA Junior League Under 11 division . |
| 6 | Abulfez Elchibey , leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , was sworn in as President on June 16 , after receiving 59.4 per cent of the vote in a 76 per cent turnout in elections on June 7 ; there were five candidates in all . |
| 7 | A reviewer in a 1928 issue of Gramophone was insatiable . |
| 8 | Michael J. Fox plays a young doctor who crashes his flashy car in a one pig town ( there are no horses in sight ) . |
| 9 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 10 | It was Maradona 's first appearance against an Italian outfit since he played for Napoli in a 4–1 defeat by Sampdoria in March 1991 . |
| 11 | Karen Van Meerbeck won her Guisborough Riding Club 's top show jumping event at Saltburn by one second on her Spring Melody in a 22 horse jump off . |
| 12 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 13 | Piggott fractured a collarbone , two ribs and suffered bruising around his right eye after his high-speed fall in a million dollar Breeders Cup race just three days ago . |
| 14 | Even if you did did cut one or two admirals , you 're not going to make much of a dent in a fifty billion pound public expenditure deficit . |
| 15 | This cofactor is required for lipase activity in the presence of bile salts above the critical micelle concentration and acts by anchoring lipase in a one to one molar ratio to the bile salt emulsified triglyceride substrate . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a bloke in a million . |
| 17 | Joyce 's family is numbered with the grains of sand in a thousand egg-timers . |
| 18 | And the prestigious science journal Nature endorsed the come-back of eugenics in a 1984 editorial entitled ’ Artificial fertilisation made natural ’ . |
| 19 | Hardly anyone over 40 does , though they will have absorbed its influence in a hundred ways , from the design of their daily paper to the styling of the latest television lager ad and the clothes and music their children consume . |
| 20 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 21 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 22 | To investigate whether colonic carcinoma cells also shed the recently described soluble sICAM-1 , culture supernatants were collected from confluently growing colonic tumour cell lines after five days of culture and assessed in duplicate in an ICAM-1 specific ‘ sandwich ’ ELISA . |
| 23 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 24 | Since their overwhelming vote for independence in a 1991 referendum , the Ukrainians have been trying to choose the West . |
| 25 | March 31 : in a referendum held in Georgia 99 per cent voted in favour of independence in a 90 per cent turnout , and on April 9 Georgia proclaimed its independence . |
| 26 | 2 weeks before the big game , he broke his ankle and then suffered the same fate in a Sevens tournament last April . |
| 27 | Logging consortium Barama is soon to start work in a four million hectare concession in Guyana . |
| 28 | Then I went to work in a five and ten , and gradually worked my way up until I was managing a general store . |
| 29 | ‘ Katie , you 're a girl in a million . |
| 30 | The Covent Garden scene is all gorblimey corn , and Shaw 's reinstated passages , bridging between scenes , seem like an excuse for the kind of business — Eliza running along stairs or surrounded by dancing couples — that would look more at home in a sixties musical . |