Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first 11 months of 1989 a record 62,500 Jews were allowed to emigrate , including some long-term " refuseniks " . |
| 2 | In the first three months of 1987 a number of the company 's cheques were dishonoured on presentation . |
| 3 | Texas Instruments Japan Ltd plans to raise production of integrated circuits for use in liquid crystal diode display drivers to 450,000 a year from the present 100,000 ; it is looking for $500m a year in the things by 1996 , for 15-fold growth . |
| 4 | ‘ The most terribly overlooked architect of the twentieth century ’ , according to Sherri Geldin of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles , Louis Kahn 's work drew crowds of 1,200 a day in Paris and the exhibition received rave reviews when it opened . |
| 5 | The Government has pledged to increase the number of assisted visits to two a month , and is putting more resources into prison visitor centres . |
| 6 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |
| 7 | CCETSW has been under government pressure to raise the number of newly-qualified social workers to 5,000 a year , partly to meet demand from the shift to care management . |
| 8 | Both the UN and the Hong Kong government reportedly hoped to increase voluntary repatriations to 1,000 a month by mid-1990 . |
| 9 | He must have succeeded in ‘ smittling ivverybody ’ for he soon had two teams of twenty a side . |
| 10 | By the marriage cohorts of 1870 a decline in national marital fertility became apparent , unrelated to any major retreat from marriage . |
| 11 | Between 1970 and 1990 there has been an average total increase of general practitioners by 500 a year ( 1.5% ) . |
| 12 | It was expected that identifying and resurfacing slippery roads would reduce skidding accidents by 1800 a year . |
| 13 | Editor , — Stephen Brearley 's editorial agreeing with the Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee 's recommendations to increase annual intake of medical students by almost 500 a year and to increase total numbers of NHS doctors by 1000 a year ( 1% ) to 112000 by 2010 seem to be based on no reliable evidence . |
| 14 | In the local elections of 1981 a number of Labour Party manifestos highlighted economic issues , and suggested ways of moving beyond the traditional approach to local economic strategies . |
| 15 | Two cart horses and one nag are kept on the farm ; Mr Long employs three labourers , at wages of 15s a week , and 3 pints of cider per day . |
| 16 | Secretary hands In 1571 a work written by Jean de Beauchesne and John Baildon called A Booke containing Divers Sortes of Hands was published . |
| 17 | Estimates of the number of returning nurses are difficult to gauge accurately on an annual yearly basis , although the UKCC has placed an educated guess through manpower enquiries at 2500 a year . |
| 18 | Since the Soweto uprisings of 1976 a lot has taken place for the younger people . |
| 19 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 20 | With increased services the company has virtually doubled its employees from 6,500 a decade ago to more than 13,000 today . |
| 21 | The Israeli cabinet yesterday rejected by eight votes to six a plea from the International Red Cross to allow food aid through . |
| 22 | The meeting accepted by 18 votes to six a proposal by the IWC 's scientific committee that commercial hunting could be resumed when stocks had reached 54 per cent of their estimated population prior to large-scale commercial exploitation . |
| 23 | The Supreme Soviet on Aug. 23 adopted by 183 votes to two a declaration of Armenia 's " independent statehood " . |
| 24 | The National Assembly on Oct. 17 adopted by 272 votes to 256 a bill introduced by Bérégovoy , banning corporate contributions to political parties . |
| 25 | In the Netherlands on Nov. 12 the Second Chamber ( lower house ) approved by 137 votes to 13 a bill to ratify the Treaty on condition that parliament be consulted in advance of the introduction of a single European currency ( a precondition also imposed by the German Bundestag — see p. 39158 ) . |
| 26 | The upper house of the federal assembly rejected by 18 votes to 17 a motion of no confidence in the Yugoslav-born American millionaire who took office in July , promising to heal ethnic rifts . |
| 27 | Collor was currently facing an impeachment trial before the Senate [ for background see pp. 38909-10 ; 39079 ] , and on Nov. 27 the Senate impeachment committee approved by 16 votes to one a report for submission to the full Senate recommending his definitive dismissal . |
| 28 | The House of Representatives on May 8 approved by the unexpectedly wide margin of 239 votes to 186 a bill which imposed a seven-day waiting period on the purchase of handguns . |
| 29 | In early December 1989 the Senate passed by 152 votes to 87 a bill prohibiting the previously legal possession and personal use of drugs , whether " soft " or " hard " . |
| 30 | And they defeated a Labour amendment to delay the Bill until after the Edinburgh summit by 319 votes to 313 a majority of just six for the Government . |