Example sentences of "[verb] a [num] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've already won a two man bobsleigh . |
| 2 | One of Britain 's oldest breweries has won a two month battle against a hostile takeover bid . |
| 3 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 4 | Seeq Technology Inc , Fremont , California has won a six month extension of its $5m bank-credit agreement with Silicon Valley Bank ; the agreement expired on February 15 and now matures on September 30 . |
| 5 | The parents of a girl who was severely handicapped after being starved of oxygen at birth have won a five year battle for compensation . |
| 6 | But the British Government , unconvinced the fastest bikes are more dangerous , has won a five year exemption and an EC Commission promise to produce road safety evidence before Britain will come into line . |
| 7 | At this point we suggest a 15–10 minute discussion of infant behaviour problems . |
| 8 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 9 | You 'll also need a one piece wetsuit , costing between £80 and £200 and a buoyancy aid or vest in the region of £25 for added security during the initial stages . |
| 10 | But the logic of the report was that we provide a two tier service [ new general hospital wards , old asylum services ] . |
| 11 | But the Samaritans — who provide a 24 hour service — do know the pain that goes on and they are trying to help . |
| 12 | The little Bath wizard kept England B driving forward and changed a 5–8 half-time deficit into an 11–8 lead with two penalties early in the second period . |
| 13 | Hybridisation of the cosmid library representing a 4 fold coverage of human chromosome 21 with the exon-enriched probe . |
| 14 | This signal shows that McCreery was assuming that the forces advancing from the south were already in the process of becoming a 5 Corps responsibility . |
| 15 | The database has extensive disaggregation by country , distinguishes fourteen commodity groups and covers a twenty year span of data . |
| 16 | Our analysis covers a 19 year period and includes some patients who took atenolol for over 10 years . |
| 17 | Since you can not issue CLI " dot " commands from the keyboard , you will need to write a CLI command file using PipeDream in order to redirect the printer input or output . |
| 18 | When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist . |
| 19 | The closest to the truth will win a thousand dollars credit at their local Titancorp comics store , a Captain Haddock T-shirt and an all-expenses-paid holiday for two in balmy Beirut . |
| 20 | She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness . |
| 21 | you can buy a 1.3 carburettor version for less than £6000 . |
| 22 | I says to Steve , I may as well buy a ten pounds worth of anything else |
| 23 | Mark then described a ten point plan and summarised its resultant effect . |
| 24 | The market dismissed a 0.25 point discount rate cut to 3.75 per cent and the bringing of forward public spending plans , worth 0.5 per cent of gross domestic product , as window dressing . |
| 25 | These findings are consistent with our early experience , when attempts were made to isolate a 10 cm segment of oesophagus between two occluding balloons in six subjects . |
| 26 | A working party of remote sensing specialists last year proposed a five year programme of work costing about £2 million a year . |
| 27 | Russia 's position , which had come under pressure in the CSCE summit in July [ see p. 39031 ] , appeared to be softening when at a meeting with his Baltic counterparts on Aug. 6 Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev proposed a 1994 withdrawal date . |
| 28 | The Bell study proposed a three stage rescue programme . |
| 29 | We recruit junior pursers who undergo a three month training programme aboard one of our cruise ships . |
| 30 | We were fortunate to have the loan of a new Citroën BX 4x4 Estate for our weekend trip , which , with its sure-footed permanent four-wheel drive , impeccable road manners and self-levelling suspension , had taken everything in its stride , — including , thanks to its optional electronic ABS braking system , stopping quickly and safely when we suddenly encountered a 5 mile tail back in a contra-flow on the M1 . |