Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enquiries at Camborne rose from 750 a month to 1,100 a month after the new post was filled . |
| 2 | According to human-rights workers , the number of people disappearing has dropped from 6,000 a year in 1989 to around 60 last year . |
| 3 | Two scientists from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell , Stewart and Crooks , reported in 1958 a ratio of polonium to iodine-131 of 1 to 38.6 on filters at Harwell , while readings made in Holland by Johans Blok indicated a ratio of 1 to 31 . |
| 4 | All that is needed in addition is a centre for image-processing and interpretation , costing about million a year . |
| 5 | The provincial grounds all hold between 40–50,000. a lot of improvements to the country 's infrastructure — transport , TV , telecommunications — were made for the Soccer World Cup in 1978 . |
| 6 | The number of people seeking refugee status has risen from 5,000 a year to 45,000 over the past four years . |
| 7 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 8 | About 70,000 vehicles are alleged to have been so financed last year and , by December , this figure was said to have risen to 17,000 a month at $25,000 ( £14,200 ) per vehicle . |
| 9 | A Harvard University research project produced in 1939 a Draft Convention on Judicial Assistance , Part II of which dealt with service of documents abroad . |
| 10 | The number of feis has mushroomed from four a year to virtually one a month in the North-East . |
| 11 | Grey Egerton , describing in 1852 a fossil fish which he had lithographed for the Geological Survey , could take a more cheerful view , calling it a ‘ pretty little specimen ’ . |
| 12 | You 've got the machines going to 3,000 a day , we know . |
| 13 | According to the report , the world 's population was growing at 250,000 a day . |
| 14 | While the average number of deaths climbed by 37,000 a year between these two periods and the rate of net emigration from the UK is estimated to have increased by 47,000 a year , the annual average number of births fell by 222,000 . |
| 15 | George Ward started smoking at nine … at one time he 's was getting through eighty a day … |
| 16 | More than 600 new cases are emerging every week , compared with 437 a week last year . |
| 17 | But only 3,000 wildcat miners are digging at the mine , compared with 20,000 a year ago . |
| 18 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 19 | Sixty-one players , compared with 32 a year ago , will earn at least $3 million and 22 will get $4 million or more . |
| 20 | Because of the recession only six in ten of beds in the group 's 839 hotels were occupied compared with seven a year ago . |
| 21 | The overall number of entries for seven handicap races are also down on 1992 , to 394 from 443 , but Irish interest has risen sharply with 61 engaged this year , compared with 39 a year ago , which Cheltenham 's managing director , Edward Gillespie , said was great news . |
| 22 | Crowds for the 10 matches ( Manchester City and QPR play tonight ) totalled 212,558 , compared with 285,016 a year ago . |
| 23 | As of the beginning of 1992 , there were 60,000 private farms registered in Russia , compared with 4,500 a year earlier . |
| 24 | During last year 1,750 members resigned compared with 489 a year earlier . |
| 25 | In that time , car sales have rocketed from 180 a year to 2,000 new cars , about 1,500 used and 350 vans . |
| 26 | No sooner had ‘ Red ’ Braswell , then President of AKA , publicised in 1978 a conversion of the simple plastic-sailed Gayla ‘ Baby Bat ’ from single to two-line for what was then christened Figurekiting , than the inventive kiters in America applied new thought to open up a new phase . |
| 27 | When the Alliance between the Liberals and the Social Democrats was formed in 1981 a formula was devised for allocating constituencies between the two parties . |
| 28 | Then Chrysler announced in 1953 a slimmer , shorter , more compact and parkable car to meet modern conditions . |
| 29 | You know we we used to sell thousand of pounds worth a year and now we 're down to couple of thousand a year and we 're s , we are losing money on that . |
| 30 | In the past 10 years drink-driving deaths have halved to 700 a year . |