Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is remarkable that the river Alde immediately south of Aldeburgh is separated from the sea by only about 50 m of shingle at the narrowest part of the spit , which causes a 17 km ( 11 miles ) deflection of the river . |
| 2 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 3 | The database has extensive disaggregation by country , distinguishes fourteen commodity groups and covers a twenty year span of data . |
| 4 | Our analysis covers a 19 year period and includes some patients who took atenolol for over 10 years . |
| 5 | Supposedly it incorporates a thousand bug fixes and product improvements , delivering a maximum 40% increase in network performance and a maximum 50% improvement in user interaction over Solaris 2.0 . |
| 6 | Conspicuously active since his election six commons speeches , 60 questions , two surgeries a week he defends a 1,975 majority against the same two major party candidates . |
| 7 | This is a this is a question we very often get asked , why do they sell a thirteen amp fuse with a thirteen amp plug if it only wants a five amp in ? |
| 8 | The Association wants a six month freeze on troublesome inmates being sent to Bullingdon and an injection of one hundred thousand pounds to provide new leisure facilities . |
| 9 | The Charity wants a million pounds and a million items of winter clothing as part of their 'Cold Front' appeal . |
| 10 | The source of DNA was plasmid pFRC64 ( 14 ) , which contains a 198 bp long AccI-HindIII DNA fragment from phage φ29 genome , containing both P A2b and P A3 promoters , cloned at the SmaI site of pUC19Ο , so that transcription from P A2b promoter faces the unique EcoRI site from the pUC polylinker sequence . |
| 11 | Adopting the arbitrary assignment of the N-terminal end of the POU domain introduced by Rosenfeld ( 9 ) , the conserved POU S domain is 69 amino acids long except for class IV which contains a three amino acids insertion between the A and B subdomains . |
| 12 | The recombinant lambda-phage LPw2-13 was isolated from the EMBL4 gene bank by probing with the recombinant plasmid pGW1 , which contains a 4.3 kbp Hind III fragment of P.wickerhamii mtDNA coding for the 3' part of the coxI gene and the SSUrRNA gene ( 25 ) . |
| 13 | Example 3 illustrates a two octave A7 arpeggio . |
| 14 | The 16 goal striker , who starts a two match ban on Monday , was bang on the spot to head Crusaders second from a beautifully served cross by Sid Burrows . |
| 15 | He starts a four year physiotherapy course at the Ulster University , Jordanstown later this year . |
| 16 | Souness starts a five match touchline ban when Liverpool attempt to reverse a 4-2 deficit in the European Cup Winners Cup at Anfield . |
| 17 | Showing the insignia of a Good deity ( eg Liadriel ) is better , and adds a +10 modifier to the Fel test here ( see below ) . |
| 18 | If a character points out that there may be Chaos or Evil behind the doors ( or , even better , asserts confidently that there is ) , and asks Thadeus to help , this adds a +10 bonus to the Fel test to be made . |
| 19 | And in fact , quite fortuitously we did bring along a plan today which has a six mile radius , erm from the Centre of York which was er the subject of some discussion at the greenbelt local plan enquiry and by and large , erm there is some consistency between the outer boundary or the greenbelt erm and the Greater York study area , both at around about six miles from the city centre . |
| 20 | Skandia ( 071–220 3520 ) also has a two year bond on offer , at 7.9% . |
| 21 | Also a friend of mine has a two year old brother who tries to have sex with his teddy bear . |
| 22 | At the other end of the spectrum , Time Off has a two night package by air , with accommodation at the luxury Hotel Lancaster , for £368 . |
| 23 | And if you want to be a little classy , the Mark Phillips Equestrian Centre at Gleneagles Hotel , Perthshire ( Tel : 0764 62231 ) has a two nights half board programme , with a choice between instruction , riding or even carriage driving . |
| 24 | I have a 1957 SWB Series One , chassis number 116700041 , which has a two litre diesel engine which was factory fitted . |
| 25 | Player ( ) has a one period life and receives its payoff at the end of its period of existence . |
| 26 | Heinemann has a one volume FCE course entitled Target First Certificate , and this has neither prequels nor sequels and will stand or fall on its own merits . |
| 27 | The large steam chamber has a one litre capacity , allowing up to one and a half hours of continuous ironing with three times more steam per minute than a conventional iron . |
| 28 | But , despite Ofahengaue 's interest in playing with Rovigo , Italian rugby has a one import rule and South African goal-kicking wizard Naas Botha was already the club 's overseas player . |
| 29 | Every room has a nineteen inch colour television , tea-making facilities and a direct dialling telephone system . |
| 30 | British Aerospace , which has a one-fifth partnership in the European Airbus combine , makes all the wings for the plane , at its Chester plant . |