Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be travelling in a traditional 65 foot long Greek style caique which accommodates a party of 32 or a 105 foot long motor cruiser which carries 48 people — both with twin engines . |
| 2 | Fifty or a hundred quid a lorry depending on the load . ’ |
| 3 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 4 | There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows . |
| 5 | rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ? |
| 6 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 7 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 8 | We believe that the migration rates that should be used should be a three year average rather than an eight or a ten year average . |
| 9 | One litter a year is quite enough for my needs , and it is in any case very much better to look after one litter properly — it may number eight or a dozen — than to spread the effort ( and the food available ) through a much larger number . |
| 10 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 11 | If , we reasoned , there really is a morphogen gradient , it should be possible to weaken the signal by decreasing the concentration , and so , instead of getting an additional set of digits 4 , 3 , 2 at the anterior margin only a 3 , 2 or a 2 should develop . |
| 12 | Inquiries were set up in both cases , while Haughey announced on Sept. 22 that a serious fraud agency was to be established . |
| 13 | The ANC announced on Oct. 22 that a high-level meeting had been arranged with the leadership of Inkatha on an unspecified date . |
| 14 | It was reported on Aug. 22 that a German national , Egbert Partesius and an Afghan , Abdul Aziz Ahmad , were arrested in Phoenix , Arizona ( USA ) , on charges of trying to sell a VAX 8820 computer with military applications to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Moscow 's Narodny Bank announced on Dec. 12 that a modified Juno mission , to place a British citizen in space aboard the Mir space station , would go ahead in April or May 1991 [ see p. 37437 ] . |
| 16 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 17 | It was announced on Dec. 2 that a new party had been created by a faction in the former communist ruling party , the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) . |
| 18 | It is evident from a Health Advisory Service ( HAS ) visit in 1985 that a fundamental flaw had been discovered in the planning of the Powick strategy . |
| 19 | He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906 . |
| 20 | Li Peng held " very fruitful " talks with President Hossain Mohammad Ershad during his visit to Bangladesh on Nov. 17-19 , signing four agreements and a note of exchange , including a long-term trade agreement for 1990-94 and a soft loan for Bangladesh worth about $40,000,000 . |
| 21 | Under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 and a Poor Law Amendment Act of the following year , Poor Law Guardians were able to create separate infirmaries — pauper hospitals . |
| 22 | His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools . |
| 23 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 24 | Calculate the net effect on national income of an increase in C of 12 and a simultaneous increase in T of 20 . |
| 25 | Tomorrow night we 'll see the Fresco favourites out of choice of 12 and a half million . |
| 26 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 27 | Inactivation of the octamer binding site results in a higher level of gene expression in cells which contain only Oct-1 and a lower level in cells containing the cervical octamer binding protein indicating that whilst Oct-1 binding reduces promoter activity , the cervical protein increases it . |
| 28 | Thus Mack and Laimins ( 25 ) have shown that another site distinct from the one characterized here and located at nucleotides 7641–7675 in the HPV 18 URR also binds both Oct-1 and a keratinocyte-specific protein although this site is not conserved in the HPV 16 URR . |
| 29 | The octamer site binds both the constitutively expressed transcription factor Oct-1 and a novel cervical octamer binding protein . |
| 30 | In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) . |