Example sentences of "[num] [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after another 75 minutes a second note said no one had changed their mind . |
| 2 | In the sections of intestinal biopsies obtained after 20 ( Fig 2B ) and 75 minutes a faint colouring was seen apically in the enterocytes . |
| 3 | ‘ At about 1100 hours a smallish raid was detected leaving Sicily on course for Malta . |
| 4 | After just eight minutes a strong drive by centre Pete Manning was stopped short of the line but the ball was quickly moved for scrum-half Watts to score . |
| 5 | On Oct. 10 the California Supreme Court upheld by a six-to-one majority a term-limit initiative , Proposition 140 , which voters had narrowly approved in November 1990 . |
| 6 | By a two-to-one majority an industrial tribunal yesterday ruled that New Possibilities NHS Trust had acted correctly in sacking Noel Reid from his post at Turner Village Hospital last year . |
| 7 | But on 12 March a peremptory summons came from the archbishop , who had gone to Vienna to attend the celebrations marking the accession of the new emperor , Joseph II . |
| 8 | No breakage of any kind was observed with the three fine sediment types , but after 192 hours a slight degree of rounding of the bones had occurred . |
| 9 | In the children older than 12 months a respiratory rate of >=60/min; alone was the best discriminatory sign , with an odds ratio of 5.1 ( 1.19 to 22.1 ) and an overall accuracy of 70% . |
| 10 | In 12 months a staggering total of 5 million under fives will have perished , victims of just one cause : diarrhoeal diseases spread by dirty water . |
| 11 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 12 | 25 lb to 30 lb a good weight . |
| 13 | On 30 November a Special Board Meeting was called . |
| 14 | The Hatters ' Act of 1749 , for example , made failure to return surplus material within twenty-one days an automatic instance of guilt . |
| 15 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 16 | As yet the list of lords who were individually summoned to attend had not hardened , so that lay peers ( as they came later to be called ) fluctuated from around fifty to a hundred , and alongside the twenty-one bishops a varying number of abbots and priors — sometimes as many as seventy , occasionally more , often fewer — were invited to attend . |
| 17 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 18 | Younis finished the series with 22 wickets a new record for Pakistan in a series in England |
| 19 | Throughout the forty interviews a clear perception of housework as work emerges . |
| 20 | Well it 's about fifty pence a cubic metre if you have a er a metered water supply in Severn Trent , which is about point O five pence a litre . |
| 21 | At 13–00 hours a frontal attack was made by tanks who approached within 20 yards of company positions , firing at point blank range . |
| 22 | The civil division of the Order of the Bath is the jealously guarded preserve of the home civil service , so that every six months a new crop of bureaucrats begin making their way from Companion of the Bath to Knight Commander or Dame Commander to Knight Grand Cross . |
| 23 | Since retiring in 1973 , I have been able to continue my early morning devotion , from which has emerged every six months a small book of personal prayers or musings about prayer . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , within six months a Cornish army again invaded England . |
| 25 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 26 | In eight of 26 animals a net fluid secretion was seen on days 6–9 . |
| 27 | By 10 July a firm front had been established , some 96 kilometres wide and 24 kilometres deep . |
| 28 | Lots of roach and hybrids , 50–60 lb a good weight . |
| 29 | Among the latest recipients of Chris Patten 's little billets doux are Sunderland councillor Eric Jenkins , 47 years a Labour party member , and Richmond councillor George Irwin , whose letter was posted locally . |
| 30 | On 7 September an Alert No. 1 ( ‘ Cromwell ’ ) — i.e. invasion expected within twelve hours — was sent out in Britain , following the interception on 5 September of Goering 's order for a mass raid on London docks , involving 300 bombers — a switch from the target of the battered airfields . |