Example sentences of "[adj] [num ord] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new League kicked off with a 25 per cent drop in attendances compared with the old First Division a year ago . |
| 2 | To qualify in this last category a dependant need not have been related to the deceased , and thus a mistress would be included . |
| 3 | MacMillan has made this last song a welcome to the future as the three protagonists quietly and slowly come forwards , their hands linked , gradually raising their heads as if greeting a new day . |
| 4 | In this last specification a family might include all the diverse forms of descent group , unilineal and other , which have subsequently become part of the jargon of social anthropology , e.g. lineage , patrilineage , matrilineage , personal kindred , ramage , etc . |
| 5 | Were the Factory Acts of the early nineteenth century a disruption of the economic order ? |
| 6 | In the early nineteenth century a number of different iron hand presses reached a sufficient stage of development for widespread application in the printing of books and required no great skill or preparation in their use . |
| 7 | From the 1640s onwards one of the functions of the Habsburg representatives in the Turkish capital was to oversee their training ; and by the early eighteenth century a number of these representatives were themselves former Sprachknabe . |
| 8 | He argues that there was in force in England from the Restoration to the early twentieth century a system of marriage that approved cousin marriage ( that is , to someone of one 's blood ) and discouraged marriage to affins ( that is a relation by marriage , including inter alia , the deceased wife 's sister ) . |
| 9 | This was so severe a problem that in the early twentieth century a petitioner to the asantehene protested against such death duties and said they had |
| 10 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 11 | Twentieth-century evolutionists such as George Gaylord Simpson have argued that Darwin 's theory of adaptive evolution is incompatible with a belief in the necessity of progress , but in the late nineteenth century a philosophy of universal change could only be accepted if the changes were assumed to have a purposeful goal . |
| 12 | In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast . |
| 13 | In the late 18th century a quarter of all Claude 's work was said to be in the possession of about fifty English Gentlemen ; of which Green saw four at Holker Hall . |
| 14 | On June 5 last year a lodger found Mrs Capper dead in bed and phoned the police . |
| 15 | 1 Next time a patient is admitted to your ward for " planned " or " routine " surgery , observe all the things which you think may be a source of anxiety and list them . |
| 16 | The result was a painting of " flying cyclamens " , one of the earliest to be sold at her own first exhibition a year later . |
| 17 | A record number of visitors visited the Maastricht European Fine Art Fair this year : 35,400 people , compared to 27,500 last year a rise of 29% . |