Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 2 | NEC Corp plans to begin fabricating MIPS Technologies Inc R-series RISC chips at its Roseville , California plant next year , at a claimed rate of tens of thousands a month . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , NEC Corp plans to begin fabricating Mips R-series RISC chips at its Roseville , California plant next year , at a claimed rate of tens of thousands a month . |
| 4 | The DTI today pledged to dump the existing system which produces an injury total 100 times less than council statistics around 800 against 80,000 a year . |
| 5 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |
| 6 | The number of representations to the Home Office is running at 700 to 800 a year , but only about five of those cases are referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 7 | Last May the plant at Cowley in Oxford decided to double its rate of production of the models from 300 to 600 a week for markets in the UK , France and Spain . |
| 8 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 9 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |
| 10 | 2.2 In 1987 a project was established jointly by SCOTVEC and CAST to examine arrangements for PSD within National Certificate . |
| 11 | There were six or seven men under him having wages from about 2/6 to 3/4 a day . |
| 12 | At the coronation of Francis II in 1559 a queue , a cask of ninety-six gallons , cost between 11/8d. and 15/10d. , whilst at the coronation of Charles IX in 1561 , just two years later , a queue had risen to between 23/4d. and 28/4d . |
| 13 | US Abortion deaths dropped from 292 to 36 a year when abortion was legalised in 1973 |
| 14 | The number of historians in higher education increased rapidly , from some 17,000 in 1962 to 27,000 a decade later , and their professional training and competence rose markedly . |
| 15 | From day 11 to 20 a dose of 5 mmol sodium sulphate in gelatin capsules , was given with each main meal ( 15 mmol/day ) . |
| 16 | It was suggested that women move from one factory to other factories at the rate of 50 to 60 a week . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , a 1978 survey of innovative rural bus services found that only one was making a profit , and most were making losses of between 14 and 48 a week , albeit smaller losses than the 64 to 347 a week losses experienced on some conventional routes ( HC Select Committee , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Under him were Walker , Shaw , William and George Parke , Pepper , Bowness , Carter and Jenkins — all smiths on a rate from 1/6 to 3/4 a day . |
| 19 | Financial services revenues , including lease and finance revenues from AT&T Capital Corp and Universal Card revenues , rose 40% to $570m , and at the end of the quarter , AT&T 's total workforce stood at 312,500 against 316,400 a year ago . |
| 20 | Financial services revenues , including lease and finance revenues from AT&T Capital Corp and Universal Card revenues , rose 40% to $570m , and at the end of the quarter , AT&T 's total workforce stood at 312,500 against 316,400 a year ago . |
| 21 | The consultation document , which the HSE sees as a contribution to the debate about the future of the country 's nuclear energy industry , proposes to adopt a risk of death to a member of the public of 1 in 100,000 a year as the benchmark for new nuclear power stations . |
| 22 | In the period 1961 to 1976 a total of about 83 were reported , numbers varying between one and 12 per year , and monthly totals were : |
| 23 | There was a set dinner for nine at 40 a head and an unlimited supply of Mateus Rose , a pink Portuguese wine curiously attractive to women . |
| 24 | One by one a pin was stuck in the origin of each call . |
| 25 | New cases of BSE in the UK " where 88,000 animals have died of the disease so far " rose from 675 to 885 a week over the past year , although the government 's chief scientist insists the figure will start to decline by the end of this year . |
| 26 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |
| 27 | As generous-hearted as he was brusquely businesslike , he was chairman of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce 1903–6 , and from 1900 to 1920 a manager of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . |
| 28 | The government on Nov. 12 won by 157 to 70 a vote of confidence in the Senate on the main features of the 1993 budget , with many senators showing their opposition to the procedure by their absence . |
| 29 | 1.3 In 1986 a Module Development Group was formed and considered the case for change . |
| 30 | 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished . |