Example sentences of "[num] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Waterskiing already takes place in lake 105 a few yards from the contested area .
2 2 A few professors are available to provide the anti-genetic arguments .
3 To avoid being unfair or unjustified , we will instruct the company to terminate Tramway No. 10 a few yards short of the junction . ’
4 The terminal of the Stockton and Darlington Railway at North Road , Darlington , was until 1842 a converted goods warehouse .
5 But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance .
6 Quick on the heels of its release of the Windowing Korn Shell 1.0 a few weeks ago , Unix System Laboratories Inc has come out with WKSH 1.1 which adds the Tuxedo System Interface library for rapid prototyping .
7 Between 1948 and 1957 a thousand titles a year appeared in praise of Mary .
8 In 1909 a Seditious Offences Bill was introduced in that country to punish publications which were designed to ‘ inflame an excitable and ignorant populace ’ .
9 In the early 1970s a few producers [ through none in europe ] adopted a continuous method of producing acrylic shet by casting the thickened monomer on to a moving stainless steel band , but this was not very suiccessful .
10 In 1873 a local lectures syndicate was appointed with Stuart as secretary , and the first university lectures and classes were given in Derby , Leicester , and Nottingham .
11 Done it I suppose I 've done it eighty a hundred times by now But this was the first time , you see .
12 They are one a few sides that have beat them this season , 18:12 the score , music to the Gloucester fans ' ears .
13 Class 50 No 50021 Rodney leaves Newton Abbot with the 10.30 Liverpool to Penzance train on 10 March 1987 a few weeks before the removal of the semaphore signals .
14 7 & 8 A few years ago Sally Baring of Borderline went into an antique shop and left with an 1895 fabric block .
15 And Lot forty nine is the drip-pan Gem there it is , Lot forty nine a hundred pounds offered , hundred and ten , one twenty , one thirty , any more at one thirty ?
16 In Zimbabwe there are now eight ‘ traditional ’ choirs , all in Harare , as compared with twenty a few years ago .
17 His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born .
18 It had been watching apprehensively the activities of Prince Charles 's brother Henry , who , his father , the Old Pretender , had written to Louis XV a few weeks earlier , ‘ can not bear to remain in Rome while his brother is in Scotland ’ .
19 Several times during their tour , which ended with the second ‘ test ’ against a New Zealand XV a few days after these notes were written , the England ‘ B ’ management announced that one aim of their New Zealand expedition was to broaden their rugby experience .
20 We therefore expect two a 1 modes , one b 1 and one b 2 in the CO stretching region .
21 All four will be both IR and Raman active ; the two a 1 modes are in principle distinguishable from the others by giving rise to polarized Raman bands in solution or in the gas phase .
22 ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start .
23 However , turning turning to Selby 's demand led approach which I would call it , and I think that is erm how they themselves in fact describe it , they have set a level of two hundred and two hundred to two hundred a fifty hectares based on demand , and as I understand it there is no assessment of job need or job demand to back that requirement .
24 Boat leaves Dublin and sails one hundred a fifty kilometres and the variant is O point five .
25 Lot thirty seven is an Edison Gem phonograph as you can see it has some cylinders with it er fifty pounds for it , fifty pounds any bids , five , sixty , five , seventy five , eighty , ninety , one hundred a hundred pounds and ten any more at a hundred and ten ?
26 a hundred a twelve pounds let let's get it right then .
27 In March 1965 a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama , had been broken up by police .
28 Three of the four a 1 modes have already been identified , and the remaining a 1 mode must be that at lowest frequency ; the Raman band is not discernably polarized for , although it is for , and no IR band contours are available .
29 Lot thirty is a Peter Pan there it is now showing , Lot thirty a hundred pounds for it , one hundred anywhere ?
30 In the late 1980s a direct communications link was established between the SES and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation to enable Singapore investors to diversify their portfolios to include both US and European stocks .
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