Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he left his previous London headquarters at 182 Camberwell New Road in something of a hurry , for a new base was quickly found at 9 Jeremiah Street , Poplar , the offices of the Green 's Home branch of the old union , at the rent of 95 a week , " starting afresh with the loan of two chairs and a table , sixpence worth of writing paper and six penny stamps for establishing communications with friends in other ports " . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1990 a number of SF shareholders , including Rubio and former Finance Minister Miguel Boyer , appeared to have been protected from losses by means of insider knowledge . |
| 3 | From 1318 new compendium rolls were ordered which involved a vast collection and collation of information from justices and others ; even before then , exchequer summonses had tripled in number ; furthermore , in the spring of 1321 a record was started of all royal gifts dispensed since the beginning of the reign . |
| 4 | During the Autumn Term of 1981 a Memorial Service was held for Mr. A. Johnston , who had died on 22nd July . |
| 5 | In the first 11 months of 1989 a record 62,500 Jews were allowed to emigrate , including some long-term " refuseniks " . |
| 6 | In the first three months of 1987 a number of the company 's cheques were dishonoured on presentation . |
| 7 | A figure of 40,000 a year is used ( though ‘ we have formed no final view about whether this number of demolitions will actually take place ’ ) . |
| 8 | Texas Instruments Japan Ltd plans to raise production of integrated circuits for use in liquid crystal diode display drivers to 450,000 a year from the present 100,000 ; it is looking for $500m a year in the things by 1996 , for 15-fold growth . |
| 9 | In the early part of 1986 a number of local authorities throughout the UK instructed the libraries under their jurisdiction ( mainly public libraries , but also a number of college libraries ) to suspend their subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals published by News International . |
| 10 | ‘ The most terribly overlooked architect of the twentieth century ’ , according to Sherri Geldin of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles , Louis Kahn 's work drew crowds of 1,200 a day in Paris and the exhibition received rave reviews when it opened . |
| 11 | In the Boxer rising of 1900 a total of seventy-nine China Inland Mission missionaries and children were killed . |
| 12 | and thirty pence for two a week to go in |
| 13 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd is to build a plant in the city of Tonami in northern Japan to produce 16M-bit memory chips : the new factory is expected to start operating in two or three years , and is expected to cost $260m and have capacity of 15,000 a month . |
| 14 | However , assuming that it is and that Winchester became for the purposes of the Act of 1986 a member of Lautro , then the assumption does not lead to any relevant conclusion . |
| 15 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 16 | By an Act of 1922 a pawnbroker could charge a ‘ valuation fee ’ of 1/2d for each 5s lent for pledges under £2 . |
| 17 | 373 , where the main contention of the defence , noted at p. 376h by Megaw L.J. , who delivered the judgment of the court , was that there must be implied into section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 a requirement that the dishonest appropriation must be without the consent of the owner of the property . |
| 18 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |
| 19 | In the winter of 1926–7 a power struggle brought it to the attention of the police . |
| 20 | There were two appeals against the verdict , which failed to reverse the decision and in the early winter of 1961 a court receiver auctioned the assets of Highlander . |
| 21 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 22 | In December of 1988 a Judge of the High Court surprisingly ruled that the simplified and common sense rule which protects the footpaths of the country did not protect waterways . |
| 23 | Exports were calculated based on an exchange rate of 123.77 yen in February against 125.59 a year ago . |
| 24 | The Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee adopted at its Seventh Session in 1965 a set of Model Rules for the Service of Judicial Process and the Recording of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Cases . |
| 25 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 26 | In Glamorgan in 1965 a company responsible for the collapse of a bridge was acquitted of manslaughter but the defence apparently never questioned whether a company can be guilty of manslaughter . |
| 27 | The Government has pledged to increase the number of assisted visits to two a month , and is putting more resources into prison visitor centres . |
| 28 | LAND Rover yesterday announced an increase in production of its £21,000 Discovery range by 550 a week — a rise of 10 per cent . |
| 29 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |
| 30 | She sounds like she 's smoking sort of sixty a day . |