Example sentences of "[det] of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name Alnasr Alwasheek somehow just does n't roll off the tongue like that of a 2,000 Guineas winner and would rank high among a long list of awkward names of Arab-owned horses . |
| 2 | Weight for weight , the tensile strength of wood is equivalent to that of a 300,000 p.s.i . |
| 3 | The architecture is that of a thousand prep-schools ; just as at a boarding school , authority seems at the same time ludicrous , arbitrary , and deadly serious . |
| 4 | He knew beyond any shadow of doubt that his own contribution to the hospital was worth infinitely more than that of a hundred Kegans . |
| 5 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 6 | In cold weather male golfers may prefer to use a ladies ' ball because it will have similar feel to that of a 90 compression ball in normal temperatures . |
| 7 | Later today the body was identified as that of a 23 year old man from Cheltenham , who 'd been seen at the race course last night . |
| 8 | Much of a seven page appendix to the Head 's progress report on his Five Year Plan 1974 to 1979 had been devoted to commenting on these earlier departmental reviews . |
| 9 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 10 | While there are a few changes in detail , most British school and college mathematics classrooms do not differ much from those of a hundred years ago . |
| 11 | Four of the graves are those of a 98 Squadron Mitchell bomber crew who died on 24 June 1943 and the other is that of a Typhoon pilot of 266 Squadron who crashed the same day as Freddie Crewe . |
| 12 | The other different thing I think is that it 's more of a one way communication . |
| 13 | But this will probably be more of a 1994 story than one for 1993 . |
| 14 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 15 | The use of a mouse with its linked screen pointer to select programs , copy disks and carry out any of a thousand functions is now part and parcel of everyday computer life . |
| 16 | Any of a thousand princes who had crawled away from the fire to shed their blood and start a legend … |
| 17 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 18 | ( Sellafield is the most striking exception in the numbers of nuclear and construction workers working together on the same site over most of a 40 year period . ) |