Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOUGH it has been more than 30 years since Jim Chilchutt last cut a rug at a high-school dance , he recaptures his lost youth every weekend , cruising the streets of Ventura behind the wheel of a 1948 Studebaker . |
| 2 | A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner . |
| 3 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 4 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 5 | Peter Mackenzie proved unusually bullish and his deep voice would reverberate throughout the dealing floor with the force of a thousand rapids : " Hallo , sir . |
| 6 | On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties . |
| 7 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 8 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 9 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 10 | Although a veteran of a dozen movies , to many outside of Spain Banderas is still that dark-browed guy who sent Madonna scurrying to the ladies ' room in last year 's docu-melodrama In Bed With Madonna . |
| 11 | We report here the characterization of a 0.96 Kb cDNA clone which contains the coding sequence of ribosomal protein S2 from Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 12 | The isolation and characterization of a ura5-6 mutant deficient for OMPppase activity have been described elsewhere ( 20 ) . |
| 13 | In 1831 the Rothesay Castle , a passenger-steamship bound from Liverpool to Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey foundered with the loss of a hundred men , women and children . |
| 14 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 15 | By January 1944 , Fletcher had command of a B-17 bomber and a ten man crew . |
| 16 | It did , however , reaffirm its overall commitment to abandon nuclear power by 2010 ( undertaken as a result of a 1980 referendum — see pp. 30335 ; 30994-96 ) . |
| 17 | The ability to call a strike without a ballot was provided by the result of a 1981 ballot on the principle of fighting pit closures ( where the grounds were economic ; the NUM was prepared to accept closures if they agreed that the pits were ‘ worked out ’ ) . |
| 18 | • This 33 lb 12 oz pike was the result of a two year campaign at a Nottinghamshire gravel pit by Mansfield miner David Dare . |
| 19 | As a result of a two day debate at Westminster and the publication of a White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " the Westminster government decided that a Constitutional Convention should be elected which would make proposals regarding the way in which the people of Northern Ireland themselves wished to be governed . |
| 20 | Until recently , the validity of exclusivity or " lock-out " clauses was uncertain as a result of a 1990 Court of Appeal decision ( Walford and others v Miles [ 1992 ] AC 128 ) . |
| 21 | The new set of ‘ guiding principles ’ are the result of a three year accident programme , begun in 1988 , to strengthen national and international policies in this area . |
| 22 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 23 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 24 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 25 | EXAMPLE The combustion of a 1.6 g sample of methanol in a flame calorimeter resulted in a temperature rise of 7.8 K. When a 12.0 V supply of electricity with a current of 2.0 A was passed through the contents of the calorimeter for 20 minutes , the temperature rose by 6.2 K. Calculate the molar enthalpy of combustion of methanol under the conditions of the experiment . |
| 26 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 27 | To the sleeping rhythm of a hundred hours , |
| 28 | Previously , each initiative — on advanced materials , manufacturing technology , biotechnology , high performance computing , global climate change and science education — was described in a pamphlet of a hundred pages or more that included detailed budgets of what each agency planned to spend . |
| 29 | A peace activist and owner of the Voice of Peace offshore radio station , Abie Nathan , was sentenced on Oct. 3 , 1989 , to 18 months ' imprisonment , with one year suspended , for meeting PLO leaders ( including Arafat ) — a violation of a 1986 law which prohibited contacts between Israeli MPs and representatives of terrorist groups . |
| 30 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |