Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 2 | A repetition of the same sin under similarly testing circumstances does not make this a duplicate of 12:10–20 . |
| 3 | What you should bear in mind of course , is that in the space of a month I probably look at this a couple of thousand times . |
| 4 | For example , you might decide you want the speed of the processor to be over 33MHz but it 's not essential — so you 'd give this a rating of two out of five . |
| 5 | BR suggested human error in handling signal warning systems , and the number of train drivers passing red lights had doubled to 800 a year since 1979 . |
| 6 | In March 1972 a drawing of one was used as the cover of Playboy Magazine . |
| 7 | I shelter his top in winter ; he gains from half a yard to two feet in height every summer and will , ere long , I doubt not , repay my care with his beauty and fragrance . |
| 8 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 9 | From Britain — you 'd probably smuggle it to France , put it through a maze , you know , take it south , country roads ; that 's half a day with two drivers . |
| 10 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 11 | Carbonate deposition on the Great Bahama Bank is said to have averaged half a metre per thousand years , even though most of the sediment is continuously swept into deeper water . |
| 12 | In the junior ( 12-14 years ) 100m backstroke Rachel Line ( Warrington ) won by half a metre in 1 min 08.34 from Adele Grassby ( Coventry ) 1 min 08.79 and Sarah Lever ( Oldham ) 1 min 10.03 . |
| 13 | Or the weave may lie in the same direction , but each row has ‘ slipped ’ half a row to one side . |
| 14 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 15 | The effect of housing developments is usually dismissed as being small unless the developments are very large — typical estimates are around one half a child aged 0–16 per household . |
| 16 | I used to buy a half a pound for 400 pesos and make thousands of papelitas to sell at 50 centavos . |
| 17 | At least half a crowd of 1,000 were English holidaymakers but most of Colombo 's cricket fans are currently hooked on a series of college matches in the city which over three days have attracted a total of 20,000 spectators at three venues . |
| 18 | At least half a crowd of 1,000 were English holidaymakers but most of Colombo 's cricket fans are currently hooked on a series of college matches in the city which over three days have attracted a total of 20,000 spectators at three venues . |
| 19 | Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan . |
| 20 | Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’ |
| 21 | A ‘ token ’ cut in interest rates of half a point to 10 p.c. was nevertheless likely to happen before the end of the month . |
| 22 | The hundred shares index closed down half a point at twenty-eight , twelve point six . |
| 23 | Its consensus forecast suggests that a united Germany would see its GNP growth rise by a net 0.6 of a percentage point in 1991 , relative to that of West Germany , and by half a point in 1992 . |
| 24 | But inflation is expected to be 0.4 percentage points higher in both years , while interest rates might rise by half a point in 1991 and perhaps by 30 basis points in 1992 . |
| 25 | They dug out about half a hundred-weight of 9 millimetre and two-two rounds . |
| 26 | For example , a district council in Sussex sought , when granting detailed planning permission on half a site at fourteen dwellings per acre , to maintain the average overall density at ten per acre . |
| 27 | Justice Minister Prince Bola Ajibola confirmed that by Feb. 12 a total of 5,200 prisoners had been released under the amnesty . |
| 28 | If you 've smoked 30 a day for 20 years , is it worth giving up ? |
| 29 | On March 30 a group of 14 Kurdish deputies resigned from the Social Democratic Popular Party ( SHP ) , which was junior partner in the governing coalition dominated by the True Path Party ( DYP ) . |
| 30 | In 1963–83 a total of six cases , of which five were lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , occurred . |