Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he left his previous London headquarters at 182 Camberwell New Road in something of a hurry , for a new base was quickly found at 9 Jeremiah Street , Poplar , the offices of the Green 's Home branch of the old union , at the rent of 95 a week , " starting afresh with the loan of two chairs and a table , sixpence worth of writing paper and six penny stamps for establishing communications with friends in other ports " . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1990 a number of SF shareholders , including Rubio and former Finance Minister Miguel Boyer , appeared to have been protected from losses by means of insider knowledge . |
| 3 | From 1318 new compendium rolls were ordered which involved a vast collection and collation of information from justices and others ; even before then , exchequer summonses had tripled in number ; furthermore , in the spring of 1321 a record was started of all royal gifts dispensed since the beginning of the reign . |
| 4 | During the Autumn Term of 1981 a Memorial Service was held for Mr. A. Johnston , who had died on 22nd July . |
| 5 | A figure of 40,000 a year is used ( though ‘ we have formed no final view about whether this number of demolitions will actually take place ’ ) . |
| 6 | In the early part of 1986 a number of local authorities throughout the UK instructed the libraries under their jurisdiction ( mainly public libraries , but also a number of college libraries ) to suspend their subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals published by News International . |
| 7 | In the Boxer rising of 1900 a total of seventy-nine China Inland Mission missionaries and children were killed . |
| 8 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd is to build a plant in the city of Tonami in northern Japan to produce 16M-bit memory chips : the new factory is expected to start operating in two or three years , and is expected to cost $260m and have capacity of 15,000 a month . |
| 9 | However , assuming that it is and that Winchester became for the purposes of the Act of 1986 a member of Lautro , then the assumption does not lead to any relevant conclusion . |
| 10 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 11 | By an Act of 1922 a pawnbroker could charge a ‘ valuation fee ’ of 1/2d for each 5s lent for pledges under £2 . |
| 12 | 373 , where the main contention of the defence , noted at p. 376h by Megaw L.J. , who delivered the judgment of the court , was that there must be implied into section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 a requirement that the dishonest appropriation must be without the consent of the owner of the property . |
| 13 | In the winter of 1926–7 a power struggle brought it to the attention of the police . |
| 14 | There were two appeals against the verdict , which failed to reverse the decision and in the early winter of 1961 a court receiver auctioned the assets of Highlander . |
| 15 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 16 | The Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee adopted at its Seventh Session in 1965 a set of Model Rules for the Service of Judicial Process and the Recording of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Cases . |
| 17 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 18 | LAND Rover yesterday announced an increase in production of its £21,000 Discovery range by 550 a week — a rise of 10 per cent . |
| 19 | She sounds like she 's smoking sort of sixty a day . |
| 20 | We will be paying you a fee of 100 a day for work on the production and one day 's preparation i.e. a total of 1200 . |
| 21 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 22 | If you look at er the erm the er papers , what 's the book called , the order of proceedings , you 'll discover that we are quite a small body of four a convenor , vice convenor four ministers four elders four others and one representative from each of the four faculties erm of divinity .. from those members of the faculty who are members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 23 | Every evening throughout 1922 a band of youths from the colony volunteered to guard the local stretch of the main road into Poltava . |
| 24 | After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585 . |
| 25 | Myers estimates a rate of loss of species from tropical rain forest at 10000 a year and compares this to a major ‘ evolutionary spasm ’ , but unlike previous ones such as the end of the dinosaurs , the present phase has the plants as well as the animals in decline . |
| 26 | It took a crew of sixty a week to set up the stage and seating in front of the ruined tithe barn in the grounds of Sudeley Castle for the four day festival . |
| 27 | By the beginning of 1982 a team had been recruited to develop the BDA as a consumers ' organisation and pressure group with the primary aim of eliminating discrimination against deaf people and of improving their quality of life . |
| 28 | With an intended output of 700 a year , the DP 1999 will treble AML 's production at a stroke , requiring a new , Ford-funded plant near the Newport Pagnell site . |
| 29 | District councillors were told that back in 1981 a resolution was approved to conduct a series of pigeon culls in Alton and Petersfield . |
| 30 | Toshiba will invest some $90m this fiscal year to raise output to 100,000 a month from the present 30,000 and raise yields to 80% from the present 60% . |