Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the trends shown by my research continue and the numbers of night visits double again within another eight years then a reorganisation of this sort will become essential . |
| 32 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 33 | Just over fifty years later a second Montevideo Congress produced a revised Convention , that on International Procedural Law of 19 March 1940 , To the existing text of what became Article 11 were added two further sentences , one requiring that letters rogatory be translated into the language of the state of destination and the other dispensing with the requirement of legalisation provided transmission was through the diplomatic ( or , in their absence , consular ) agents of the state of origin . |
| 34 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 35 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 36 | So that the wearing of mourning , fifty years earlier a sign of virtue , had now in Mrs Maugham 's generation become a habit to be scorned and condemned ; it was ostentatious and therefore it was insincere . |
| 37 | In the US , thanks to an agreement that major distributors would give eight films annually a full circuit release , pictures such as The 49th Parallel , Target for Tonight and In Which We Serve had done remarkable business . |
| 38 | a hundred and fifty crackers just a letter addressed |
| 39 | They undertake a booking of a minimum of fifty seats once a week if we will give a special price . |
| 40 | Three hours later a junior official of the DTI sent a note , uselessly releasing Lonrho from the undertakings not to bid . |
| 41 | When I did this course ( in 1988 at Lewisham College ) I went to tutorials for three hours twice a week , at which theory was taught , and we engaged in teaching exercises assessed by our peers and tutors . |
| 42 | Suzanne , my wife , who had just had a baby , drove three hours twice a day to see me . |
| 43 | Three hours earlier a lilting voice had told me that I had a nice big cock . |
| 44 | Three minutes later a curious little procession made its way up the stairs . |
| 45 | Three months later a very different Prime Minister took over and established a very different command and control post in No. 10 . |
| 46 | Three months ago a worker died and another was badly injured when a lorry ploughed into them on the hard shoulder . |
| 47 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 48 | Nearly three decades later a British publicist had no doubt that ‘ the refinement of modern ages has stripped war of half its horrors ’ . |
| 49 | Since the main Which ? magazine appeared more than 35 years ago a whole new breed of special interest publications have been spawned including Holiday Which ? , |
| 50 | Three weeks nearly a month Sue mate . |
| 51 | Le Bon ( 34 ) , married to supermodel Yasmin le Bon , is under doctor 's orders to rest his acutely inflamed vocal chords for at least three weeks following a heavy touring schedule in the United States recently . |
| 52 | Three days later a new formation arrived , 5 Indian Division . |
| 53 | Three days later a wind came up and revived the fire which spread to and damaged the plaintiff 's land . |
| 54 | Part of the M1 was closed for the second time in three days following a multiple pile-up in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 55 | Three years ago a Sao Paulo solicitor was applauded as he kicked a young would-be pickpocket to death . |
| 56 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 57 | Three years ago a study by officials at the Department of Industry apparently backed the idea . |
| 58 | Three years ago a group of have-nots , led by Mexico , blocked agreement on stiffer NPT rules for trade in nuclear materials because the nuclear powers would not agree to ban tests . |
| 59 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 60 | Just three years ago a French doctor , Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the University of Paris , saw the launch of the pill he 'd researched for years . |