Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty thousand represents about a five percent reduction . |
| 2 | M stands for a thousand , so a 10M potency , for instance , has been diluted 1 in 100 , ten thousand times . |
| 3 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
| 4 | Friesians cleared at £265 , while fat cows made £109.65 for M Mairs for a 570 kg Friesian and to £108 to A Doherty for a Simmental . |
| 5 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 6 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
| 7 | fifty , oh looks like a five five one thread |
| 8 | LOOKS LIKE A MILLION FOR £13.49 |
| 9 | LOOKS LIKE A MILLION FOR £9.45 |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think it looks like a million other pools at all , ’ he stated , an edge of impatience to his voice . |
| 11 | ‘ Your múmia looks like a million dollars , too . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen . |
| 13 | close your zero there in case it looks like a six . |
| 14 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 15 | The PCX format starts with a 128 byte header giving various general details , including bits/pixel , the number of bit planes , and the size of the image in pixels . |
| 16 | Close to the primer , the sequence starts with a 25 units track of the repeat T 2 AG 3 , followed by the Tetrahymena T 2 G 4 telomeric sequence . |
| 17 | His black hair lies in a hundred casual curls . |
| 18 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 19 | Lane 1 , Hind III digested λ DNA ( 0.2 µg ) ; lane 2 and 6 , Bam HI- Pst I digested pPYACRC5 DNA ( 0.5 ng ) , ( lane 6 corresponds to a 10 times shorter exposure to autoradiography ) ; lanes 3 to 5 , PstI digested DNA ( 1 µg ) from three unstable pPYACRC5 transformants . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the SeHCAT value corresponds to a seven day elimination of bile acids , whereas the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one only reflects the synthesis at a certain time . |
| 21 | This fact probably has over a fifty per cent accuracy . |
| 22 | However the plan also allows for a 36 per cent rise in carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry and power plants . |
| 23 | Amongst those detained was a Belgian Member of the European Parliament who had earlier disclosed to the newspapers plans for a 3 km-wide ‘ waste island ’ off Zeebrugge . |
| 24 | Full of surprises , the first side of the album ends with a 20 second operatic burst about of all things a cup of tea , sounds comical , but shows a command of vocal security on Sam 's part . |
| 25 | The company had insisted the last 88 job cuts in a 2,200 redundancy programme had to be found before yesterday 's deadline . |
| 26 | Day trips within a 50 mile radius include : the Farne Islands ( home to seventeen different species of sea-birds and a colony of grey seals ) , the 16th-century Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Isle ( National Trust property ) , and the historical cathedral city of Durham . |
| 27 | Ends in a four . |
| 28 | Right if it ends in a five then five is one of its factors . |
| 29 | So if it ends in a nought or it ends in a five then five goes into it . |
| 30 | Well it ends in a five so we know that five goes into it . |