Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The load on the UPS has a maximum rating , typically around 250 to 500 watts for a PC , and this must not be exceeded or the UPS will be overloaded . |
| 2 | Shell , one of the League 's top offensive tackles for 15 years , made the Pro Bowl eight times as a Raider . |
| 3 | Eleven months after a pensioner was found dead in his home , one of his neighbours has been charged with murdering him . |
| 4 | Jan Alexander Taylor and Patrick Thomas Hayes were arrested on Tuesday , hours after police released film of two men caught on security cameras five weeks ago walking along the street near the Knightsbridge store about 30 minutes before a small bomb exploded . |
| 5 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before a LIFESPAN shut down so that any outstanding transactions may be given sufficient time to complete . |
| 6 | At least 40 people were killed in Bamako on 22 March after a student demonstration was stopped by the security forces and rioting broke out . |
| 7 | As previously mentioned , if the buyer indicates that he does not intend to make an offer for the company he will not be permitted to post an offer document for 12 months unless a third party announces an offer during that period . |
| 8 | As the hon. and learned Gentleman is asking questions about the management of our prisons , what has he to say about the management of a prison service in which , 12 months after a learned judge advises the Home Secretary to move suspected and convicted terrorists from Brixton prison , they are still there ? |
| 9 | The majority , a balance of 75% , are bullish about UK equities over the coming 12 months while a balance of 51% are enthusiastic about Japanese shares . |
| 10 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |
| 11 | At the same time Lasky offered Out of Darkness in which a young heiress lives off the profits of a Florida cannery in which hundreds of working-girls earned 30 cents for a 13-hour day at the cutting-tables . |
| 12 | Firemen rescued 30 pigeons after a blaze in a car threatened to spread to their loft in Hutone Place in Hartlepool . |
| 13 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 14 | According to the newspaper La Nacion , Delia Adela Guevara de Palazzo missed becoming the first victim of space debris by 2 metres when a 1.5 kilogram fragment of the space station landed in her back garden . |
| 15 | A decade ago , a small car was regarded as highly economical if it was capable of averaging 30 mpg while a large family car was regarded as having acceptable fuel consumption at 20 mpg . |
| 16 | It would be another six years before a Virgin office would open in America again . |
| 17 | According to one Whitehall source , if present trends continue , the case could take up to six years before a final decision is delivered . |
| 18 | If they did , it will be at least 10 years before a cure is developed . |
| 19 | Leeds new centre signing Kevin Iro wo n't make his debut for at least six weeks after a specialist said that the Kiwi international 's injury was worse than first feared . |
| 20 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 21 | Sickness benefit is payable for up to twenty-eight weeks if a person is incapacitated for work at the rate of£33.20 a week , together with £20.55 for an adult dependant . |
| 22 | An inquest on May 22 , 1990 , into the deaths of 45 people when a British Midland Boeing 737 crashed near Kegworth in December 1988 [ see p. 36410 ] returned a verdict of accidental death , discounting negligence on the part of pilot and crew ( who , amid the confusion , had turned off the functioning engine instead of the one that had caught fire ) . |
| 23 | Holdsworth , a £725,000 summer signing from Brentford , has not scored in six matches since a hernia operation . |
| 24 | In 1958 , fifty years after A Room with a View was first published , Forster added an appendix to it in which he described the fate of his characters after the First World War was ended : |
| 25 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |
| 26 | ‘ Ards have been out of the picture since then but I 've enjoyed a good Irish Cup record at my other clubs , getting to the final three times as a player and twice as Larne 's manager . |
| 27 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 28 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 29 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 30 | Under the affordable-housing programme , houses valued at under $67,500 and apartment complexes are held off the open market for 90 days after a thrift is seized by the government . |