Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 2 | The other was not a delegate from his circuit of East London since he usually came last in the election ( except last year when he was ninth out of eight until a lady delegate became pregnant ) . |
| 3 | Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats . |
| 4 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 5 | Furthermore this number underestimates the number of external programmes which were expected to be attended during 1984/5 because a number of authorities ( 16 in our sample ) were not able to indicate or estimate this , in the spring of 1984 : |
| 6 | Police have released a video of a man who carried out three robberies including one where a shot was fired . |
| 7 | Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 . |
| 8 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 9 | This changed in 1980 after a major died in one of two shooting attacks against soldiers . |
| 10 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 11 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 12 | the LEA offered no grant-aid in support of the four WEA Terminal courses Jacques arranged in 1936–37 although a grant of £40 was promised for 1937–38 . |
| 13 | The highlight of this sale of Victorian pictures , drawings and watercolours is undoubtedly ‘ Contradiction : Oberon and Titania ’ painted by Richard Dadd in 1854–1858 while a patient at Bethlem Hospital . |
| 14 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 15 | When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’ |
| 16 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 17 | The ex-Republican is Mr Lowell Weicker , a blunt critic of the conservative wing of the party , who was unseated in 1988 after a number of prominent right-wing politicians supported his Democratic opponent . |
| 18 | In western Germany , for instance , OECD figures suggest that the total of industrial waste was lower in 1990 than a decade earlier . |
| 19 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 20 | Poor solvents have values of χ 1 close to 0.5 while an improvement in solvent power lowers χ 1 . |
| 21 | Daphne Hereward has been teaching at the Ghana Empire school in Accra since 1977 after a career devoted to classical and archaeological studies and teaching , in both university and school . |