Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 2 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 3 | The retired management consultant , of Kingsmead Avenue , Worcester Park , Surrey , thanked the jury for its verdicts , reached after just 30 minutes following a three-day trial at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 4 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 5 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 6 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 7 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 8 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 9 | Duncan Knight , having set the target speed at 110 m.p.h. , was closely followed by Tony Marti at 105 m.p.h. , but Marcus Robinson also clocked up 105 m.p.h. so a ‘ play-off ’ was arranged . |
| 10 | Forty years ago a Sunderland shirt-maker married a shipyard pattern-maker . |
| 11 | He is allowed visitors for 10 minutes once a week . |
| 12 | but the particular council which is Elmbridge District Council , started off after last year 's victory by the Liberal Democrats , by moving to one full council meeting a week , lasting about six hours once a week . |
| 13 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 14 | ( Granted , there were a few flaws … but hey , ‘ MY PEN RAI ’ ( ‘ never mind ’ ) , as we say about 100 times here a day in Thailand ! ) |
| 15 | She does work seventeen to nineteen hours here a week and she takes her work home . |
| 16 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |
| 17 | Some six months later an anguished letter arrived from the United States in which she said that since arriving in the USA she had barely had two weeks without an attack of herpes and could she possibly attend again when she was next in England . |
| 18 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 19 | They can also be classified by frequency , Some are published weekly , others monthly and yet others bimonthly or quarterly , and the " lead times ' or periods between material being received and appearing in the magazine can vary from three or four days to six months more an important point to bear in mind when planning a press campaign . |
| 20 | Current emissions of 500,000 tonnes a year would be cut to 73,000 tonnes once a modernization programme costing US$900,000,000 , funded in part by Finland , Norway and Sweden , had been carried out . |
| 21 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 22 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 23 | When six years later a son was finally born , his new family simply threw him out and the poverty is so great in the region that one month spent begging and homeless brought him to death 's door . |
| 24 | Six years later a papal envoy passing the city reported scarcely two hundred houses still standing , with human bones scattered across the countryside . |
| 25 | It may not be , and Hakel and Reimer might have taken the opportunity to sow more seeds of doubt , or at least put the certified cause of death in an historical perspective : 100 years ago a recorded cause of death from heart disease ( except for congenital malformations and valve defects ) was barely known , yet ischaemic heart disease must surely have existed . |
| 26 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 27 | Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation . |
| 28 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 29 | He was on long term treatment with frusemide ( 80 mg twice a day ) , enalapril ( 10 mg once a day ) , isosorbide mononitrate ( 10 mg once a day ) , and aspirin ( 150 mg once a day ) . |
| 30 | He was on long term treatment with frusemide ( 80 mg twice a day ) , enalapril ( 10 mg once a day ) , isosorbide mononitrate ( 10 mg once a day ) , and aspirin ( 150 mg once a day ) . |