Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unofficial EC estimates suggest that provision has had to be made for about £2 billion in the £28 billion borrowing requirement for 1992–93 as a result of the policy shift . |
| 2 | The aggregate of outstanding balances fluctuated quite violently , falling sharply especially in 1947 , but for 1945–51 as a whole it fell by only £70 million . |
| 3 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 4 | The government appealed for $273,000,000 in external aid at the launch of its emergency relief programme for 1989/90 at a meeting with international donors in Luanda on Sept. 21-22 , 1989 . |
| 5 | The tube is mixed for 2 min at room temperature to allow binding of the DNA before the diatoms are sedimented for 5-10s in a microfuge . |
| 6 | Weald set a formidable target of 239 for 2 in a match restricted to 40 overs . |
| 7 | It is forecast to rise further during 1993 as a result of new fields coming on stream , principally the Piper and Saltire fields in the UK North Sea . |
| 8 | During June the Central Electoral Junta announced results for 154 of a total of 206 municipalities . |
| 9 | The Language in Teacher Education Questionnaire was sent out during 1985 to a number of colleagues working in areas and institutions where sections of the population use languages other than English for social , occupational and academic purposes . |
| 10 | When you can get choice of them , if they 're going for forty over a piece ! |
| 11 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 12 | At No. 17/595 the Schützen Palace was rebuilt c.1700 and completed after 1706 to a design by V. Kaňka . |
| 13 | Even so , she had to admit to a sneaking sense of relief when Luke left the office just after twelve for a business luncheon ; despite her defiance , she preferred that he did n't see her cross the road to the wine bar at one o'clock . |
| 14 | As one of its responses to the International Statistical Year , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development had commissioned a comparative study of national R and D efforts , based on an officially agreed definition of research and development activity ; the so-called ‘ Frascati definition ’ , named after one of a number of pleasant resorts favoured by the OECD for conferences . |
| 15 | She slept until Annunziata came to call her soon after five with a bowl of zabaglione , which Julia had never tasted until her illness . |
| 16 | The latter were represented after 1474 by a minor in the custody of William lord Hastings , who does not seem to have played much part in south Yorkshire . |
| 17 | The latter were represented after 1474 by a minor in the custody of William lord Hastings , who does not seem to have played much part in south Yorkshire . |
| 18 | Britain , to which the other West European states had looked after 1945 for a lead , was , if any further evidence had been required , clearly in the wings . |
| 19 | Today 's course was expected to draw about 25–30 for a day of comprehensive teachings , meditation and discussion . |
| 20 | The apparently set commercial format of ITV in the UK was rudely upset during 1991 by a novel — and pretty ill-thought-out — scheme dreamed up by the government to distribute new licences for ITV1 . |
| 21 | They had difficulty finding a drummer and went through 10 in a year , recording several demo tapes with different people , before finally settling on Shaun Charman . |
| 22 | America 's visible-trade balance is also shrinking , so some forecasters are expecting a current-account deficit as small as $20 billion-30 billion ( 0.3% of GNP ) for 1991 as a whole . |
| 23 | Doubts about economic revival were borne out by figures published on Feb. 19 showing that for 1991 as a whole gross domestic product ( GDP ) had , on a provisional basis , fallen by about 2.5 per cent compared with 1990 . |
| 24 | Half past eleven of a hurricane morning . |
| 25 | The UN became heavily involved in Korean affairs from the beginning of 1948 as a consequence of the acceptance by the UN General Assembly of the American proposal that elections should be held in both parts of Korea to achieve a national assembly and then a unified government for Korea . |
| 26 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 27 | ‘ We go back to when I was a silly little girl of eleven with a schoolgirl crush on Martin . |
| 28 | The company 's figures imply that when you have burnt 99.9999 per cent of a 30,000-tonne annual throughput , a figure of 0.03 of a tonne remains . |
| 29 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 30 | In the stanchions the lashing is a figure of eight through a hole in the stanchion and two eye bolts fixed into the false runners . |