Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was however hard to speak to the girls out on the streets and so in 1991 a Refuge Centre was opened at Holm Street . |
| 2 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 3 | I think she down to five a day now five today is it ? |
| 4 | ‘ Cut down to twenty a day . ’ |
| 5 | And cut them down by twenty a day . |
| 6 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 7 | Soon after 1620 a monument was erected to the memory of the first [ q.v. ] and second Barons Rich ( died 1568 and 1581 , Felsted , Essex ) which includes a series of reliefs illustrating scenes from the life of the first lord . |
| 8 | It is impossible to confine a discussion of Europe 's economy solely to Europe ; it was already by 1880 a part — the dominant part — of a world economy whose organization was to be elaborated even more before 1914 . |
| 9 | The meeting adopted a Soviet proposal to phase in gradually from 1991 a protocol allowing for the introduction of hard-currency trading among member countries . |
| 10 | Early in 1937 a group of prominent Liberals pressed such a policy on the Liberal Party Executive , their appeal for " Unity " being printed by the Party without comment . |
| 11 | Early in 1990 a group of people involved in various community organisations in West Belfast met informally to discuss the economic problems of the area . |
| 12 | Also in 1976 a symposium on physical problems of the urban environment ( Chandler , Cooke and Douglas , 1976 , p. 57 ) concluded that : |
| 13 | In France the later head of the foreign ministry archives , the comte d'Hauterive , set up in 1800 a school for this purpose which , like its predecessor almost a century earlier , stressed heavily the study and analysis of diplomatic documents . |
| 14 | The rouble has collapsed as Russia 's prices have soared : it now takes 934 roubles to buy a dollar , up from 128 a year ago . |
| 15 | And some people do up to two a week . |
| 16 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
| 17 | By late December the number of people leaving had risen to up to 600 a day , not far short of the total for the whole of the period 1987-89 . |
| 18 | Well I think Yeah we could put it up to three a day we 'll got cos there is n't quite so much messing about you know . |
| 19 | The original version of this machine — which Nelson eventually patented in 1955 — could cut about a dozen bars a minute : the version now in use can cut up to 400 a minute . |
| 20 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 21 | The report predicts that the large number of new product and packaging launches — up to 30 a year in each country for washing powder concentrates and liquids alone — will continue in the future . |
| 22 | Three quarters of men now argue with their partners , against six out of 10 a year ago . |
| 23 | The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate . |
| 24 | Then in 1970 a coup attempt by an army/police combination was followed by more executions and imprisonments . |
| 25 | Then in 1958 a split opened in the ruling AFPFL . |
| 26 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 27 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 28 | Also a Palatine group was the lay-out at Germigny-des-Près in France , near Orléans , where in 806 a palace and church was built . |
| 29 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |