Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was however hard to speak to the girls out on the streets and so in 1991 a Refuge Centre was opened at Holm Street . |
| 2 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | Soon after 1620 a monument was erected to the memory of the first [ q.v. ] and second Barons Rich ( died 1568 and 1581 , Felsted , Essex ) which includes a series of reliefs illustrating scenes from the life of the first lord . |
| 4 | It is impossible to confine a discussion of Europe 's economy solely to Europe ; it was already by 1880 a part — the dominant part — of a world economy whose organization was to be elaborated even more before 1914 . |
| 5 | The meeting adopted a Soviet proposal to phase in gradually from 1991 a protocol allowing for the introduction of hard-currency trading among member countries . |
| 6 | Early in 1937 a group of prominent Liberals pressed such a policy on the Liberal Party Executive , their appeal for " Unity " being printed by the Party without comment . |
| 7 | Early in 1990 a group of people involved in various community organisations in West Belfast met informally to discuss the economic problems of the area . |
| 8 | Also in 1976 a symposium on physical problems of the urban environment ( Chandler , Cooke and Douglas , 1976 , p. 57 ) concluded that : |
| 9 | Then in 1970 a coup attempt by an army/police combination was followed by more executions and imprisonments . |
| 10 | Then in 1958 a split opened in the ruling AFPFL . |
| 11 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 12 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 13 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |