Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron Church and John Harbour , both representatives for John Murray , retired from the company in December after a joint 88 years with the firm . |
| 2 | The talented female star headed for a welcome rest after a hectic six months that 's seen the release of her first solo LP and current hit single Walking on Broken Glass . |
| 3 | After a hectic three months ' work load , by a small but willing group of members , the BCRS Museum is up and running |
| 4 | The Frenchman reached the stadium 34 seconds ahead of Olaf Ludwig , of Germany , after a final six miles when victory was always in doubt . |
| 5 | After a consistent 14 goals in 14 seasons for Tranmere , Mungall broke the mould this term with his second goal of the campaign against Birmingham . |
| 6 | And after a sparkling three days of racing , the Gold Cup itself provided a dramatic climax to the week . |
| 7 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 8 | Seven years is the rehabilitation period for prison sentences of six months or under ; five years for all other sentences which fall short of imprisonment , save for an absolute discharge which is " spent " ( not that is should carry a blameworthy connotation in any event ) after a bare six months . |
| 9 | So , it seemed that Scotland had got rid of her usurper , after a bare three months . |
| 10 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
| 11 | — NORTH-East discus champion Helen Middlemass won her specialist event , achieving the qualifying distance with a throw of 34.70 after a winning 9.53 metres in the intermediate shot . |
| 12 | After a lucky thirteen episodes , Crawford decided that Frank Spencer should bow out . |
| 13 | But now we 're out of there after a tearful twenty minutes . |
| 14 | After a desultory fifteen minutes looking through News on Sunday , 5.6 per cent of interviewees had said they were ‘ certain to buy ’ a paper like Hayling 's dummy . |
| 15 | A LEANER , fitter Novaceta faces a year of consolidation after a difficult 12 months since the Anglo-Italian joint venture was established . |
| 16 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 17 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 18 | Mansell had started from the outside of the second row after a troubled two days with the new car . |
| 19 | And he is sleeping in his own bed in his own home after an amazing 1,270 days and nights in hospital . |
| 20 | After an enjoyable 45 minutes , I was told I had passed . |
| 21 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 22 | The opponent in the West seat had made a call of a weak 2 Hearts , which suggested that he had a 6 card Heart suit and not many high cards in his hand . |
| 23 | Much laughter , jollity , and anticipation of a successful 12 months ahead with a government on the run . |
| 24 | In other bad news , Japan 's domestic telecommunications giant , NTT , said it would cut another 30,000 jobs between 1994 and 1996 , on top of a planned 40,000 jobs to be lost between 1990 and 1993 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Sir Lewis does not intend to rush his decision on the future of the Country Court concept , currently on ice with only six of a planned 20 hotels off the starting blocks . |
| 26 | All contributions to the pulse echo from anywhere along the line XY , which in practice means the two patches of the planet 's surface on this line , corresponds to unique values of a certain two quantities which no other points on the surface possess . |
| 27 | It looks as though he 's won , but no , the Liverpudlian comic , Al Dean , is awarded 97 out of a possible 100 points . |
| 28 | Only 3 10 out of a possible 750 awards were made between 1978 and 1982 . |
| 29 | On the first repetition ( but excluding the final period , in which all except a very few sold their entire post-production stock ) subjects either sold all their stock ( 317 occasions ) or none of their stock ( 112 occasions ) on 429 occasions out of a possible 672 occasions ( 64 group subjects + 32 individual subjects all multiplied by seven periods ) . |
| 30 | The pupils , all aged between seven and 11 years old , scored 54.5 out of a possible 70 points . |