Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 2 | In addition to classroom support Mrs says that Paul needs general support for three hours per evening in relation to his er social well being in his leisure activities three hours per evening for the four evenings a week which he spends at school , in relation to this I think it right to bear in mind Mr evidence about the school , being a special school of course has generous staffing levels , staffing levels which would make the mouth of any head teacher of any other school water I suspect . |
| 3 | Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries . |
| 4 | The lavatory was below ground , and in the white brick walls between the two cubicles a hole had been hacked , one of the best glory-holes in existence at that time . |
| 5 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 6 | After tricky negotiations between the two professors a judicious compromise was reached by which Heisenberg was allowed to pass but at the lowest level . |
| 7 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 8 | She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered . |
| 9 | Betacom is giving each of the six finalists a Betacom Venture cordless telephone ( £79.99 ) . |
| 10 | Hair apparently benefited : of the 120 volunteers a total of 37 stated that the condition of their hair had actually improved whilst almost all the remainder reported no deterioration whatsoever . |
| 11 | By the 1780s Bath and Bristol as well as London were the receivers , via Exeter , of the 500 vanloads a year which were sent from Brixham in Devon . |
| 12 | They thought the division of the two provinces a check on Russian influence . |
| 13 | The men were the brothers of Patrick Welsh , one of the two men a jury had just cleared Mr Thompson of killing by using his Jaguar to force their van off the road and into a wall and lamp post . |
| 14 | On one of the three pages a nude Amaranth had been photographed playing croquet . |
| 15 | Born in South Shields , Scott was one of the 12 months a year men who played League football and County cricket . |
| 16 | The demise of the 12 months a year man is due mainly to the extra pressure , and greater financial rewards , in both sports . |
| 17 | From some of the 11,000 students a warm reception , and a cheeky invitation . |
| 18 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |
| 19 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 20 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 21 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 22 | A property developer is hoping to defy the recession by putting flats in a converted Mill on the market at up to a quarter of a million pounds a time . |
| 23 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 24 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 25 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 26 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 27 | Throughout the forty interviews a clear perception of housework as work emerges . |
| 28 | Speedie , a one-time Quaker with Darlington and like the two managers a former number seven at Anfield , headed his second on the hour and side-footed his third after a mix up between Wright and Liam O'Brien with fifteen minutes left . |
| 29 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 30 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |