Example sentences of "[num] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
| 2 | Lee 's inauguration ceremony was marred by protests over his unexpected nomination on May 2 of a former senior general , Hau Pei-tsun , as Premier . |
| 3 | Most counties carry a professional playing staff sufficient to fill two full elevens plus a few to cover for injuries . |
| 4 | A wrestling stadium was opened in 1933 by a former amateur wrestler and publican to show ‘ free style ’ wrestling from the USA with its commercial flamboyance and parodies of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ sportsmanship . |
| 5 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
| 6 | The decimetre-scale interbedding between LDO and nannofossil ooze represents timescales from hundreds to a few thousand years . |
| 7 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 8 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 9 | I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . |
| 10 | The success in the 1970s of a few Asian ‘ Newly Industrialising Countries ’ ( NICs ) at making rapid growth in manufactured exports the key to rapid output growth , drew attention to the potential contribution of a ‘ good ’ external strategy . |
| 11 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 12 | 50 After a half century of building and prosperity in the newly proclaimed Empire , Sigmar vanishes into the east . |
| 13 | 3 After a few minutes , the mind can not cope with the speed , and one partner usually finishes up tangled in a knot . |
| 14 | In a profile of Denis Law written in 1962 the late great Scottish journalist John Rafferty summarised the '60s in a few short condemnatory words . |
| 15 | Timex 's plant in Dundee has stopped making watches ( it now produces printed circuit boards ) , and its workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred . |
| 16 | At the rear of the church was an old girls school erected in 1818 by a former rector , Archdeacon William Henry Edward Bentinck . |
| 17 | One of a former battery of Hortons to plug electrical unit ( 5 ) |
| 18 | The diameter of this , one of a few surviving treadwheels , is 15½ feet . |
| 19 | He later became the senior trainer , served the Palace under ten managers and was one of a few staff left at Selhurst during World War Two . |
| 20 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 21 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 22 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 23 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 24 | If the defendant was the only person other than the plaintiff using the information ( or one of a few ) then the injunction would be effective to protect the plaintiff and would be granted . |
| 25 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 26 | erm Well not really because erm I believe erm that one was erm one of a few that survived at the erm time of the change of the erm Prime Minister . |
| 27 | The president tried to soothe the unions by promising that , as inflation drops to zero in a few weeks , real pay will increase . |
| 28 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 29 | ‘ But they could be eighteen for a few moments . |
| 30 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |