Example sentences of "[num] [prep] a [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre . |
| 2 | Ten times he went into Test battle with them , winning once in 1977 in a Lions ' jersey , and his experience and example will be crucial when the revamped , and increasingly successful , Gwent side meet the tourists in 13 days time . |
| 3 | She was educated privately , and then attended Newnham College , Cambridge , from 1878 to 1880 as a Goldsmiths ' scholar , but left , with no tripos , in order to teach at Truro High School . |
| 4 | The editor of Argumenty i Fakty , Vladislav Starkov , under strong criticism following the publication in early October 1989 of a readers ' poll of the most unpopular Congress deputies [ see p. 36980 ] , continued to defend himself vigorously in the media and his staff threatened to resign if he was dismissed ; in late October , however , the paper appeared to be trying to appease the party central committee by publishing both an interview with Yegor Ligachev , a leading conservative CPSU politburo member and central committee Secretary responsible for Agriculture , and also an opinion poll favourable to Gorbachev . |
| 5 | The outstanding performance of the tour was R Yeabsley 's 201 not out against Hong Kong Schools — it was the first double hundred by a Haberdashers ' schoolboy . |