Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately . |
| 2 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 3 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 4 | For that year the comparable figure fell just short of half a million at 498,576 . |
| 5 | You 'll also notice that we put a provision in there of half a million for expansion of packing cos we believe that we may need this erm with the production of the o you for the carry on . |
| 6 | Vienna 's population of half a million in 1864 had become 2 million by 1914 . |
| 7 | The massive decline of the state hospital population in the USA , from a peak of half a million in 1955 to 191,000 twenty years later indicates that the scale of change is indeed highly significant , and that , in some form , a transfer of care has occurred . |
| 8 | And that ties up When you get it like this a tenth of the speed . |
| 9 | In 1992–93 a fifth of revenues will be unregulated . |
| 10 | In 1864 he received a first class in classical honour moderations , and then in 1867 a first in literae humaniores , even though he was said to have read no more than half the required books . |
| 11 | In Britain in 1957 a third of married women were working again . |
| 12 | In 1906 a fifth of the coal burnt in the Berlin area was British . |
| 13 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 14 | Much the same is true for America and Germany : municipal solid waste , generated by houses and offices , makes up at most a tenth of the total . |
| 15 | Productivity he achieved — by 1925 a third of the films made in Britain came from Stoll 's studios at Cricklewood — but he was never anywhere near achieving his intention to ‘ leave American buyers convinced of England 's ability to deliver the goods . ’ |
| 16 | By 1959 a third of those cases were about the way these relations had failed to meet expectations , particularly women 's expectation , since twice as many women as men applied to it . |