Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 2 | there we go Blondie , Island of Lost Souls , taking us round to eighteen minutes before eight o'clock on a Tuesday night , a Radio Nottingham Sports Special , Notts on the Italia trail tonight . |
| 3 | Tommy spent quite a time delivering the handbills to every house in the town and opened for business at eight o'clock on a Monday morning and closed twelve hours later . |
| 4 | Eleven o'clock of a hurricane morning , Trent thought wryly . |
| 5 | Eleven o'clock on a Sunday morning and the Reverend Steve Parcell is tending to his flock . |
| 6 | Even if every child of thirteen was learning algebra at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday , each child would be learning algebra for himself , with the help of his own class teacher . |
| 7 | Why do n't you go in late , go in for eleven o'clock on a Friday |
| 8 | Well ca n't , he said look have a word , and he said to me , you know , do you mind if we do like eight till eleven o'clock as a wedding party |
| 9 | The stumps were pitched at 12 o'clock after a firework display . |
| 10 | The query command is shown in Figure 3.7 along with an example of its results in Figure 3.8 . |
| 11 | Barcelona , 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 12 | Cumming ( he changed his name in 1889 after marriage ) spent the early 1890s largely as a country gentleman on his second wife 's Morayshire estate . |
| 13 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 14 | The attempt began at 2 a.m. with an assault on Dodan Barracks on Ikoyi Island in Lagos , the headquarters of the military government . |
| 15 | Er now so what fraction of the total , forty out of a pound . |
| 16 | It was written and painted with outstanding expertise about the year 800 AD in a monastery scriptorium , but it is impossible to identify where this monastery was located . |
| 17 | The POR was set up in 1935 not as a breakaway from an orthodox Communist party ( none existed in Bolivia until the formation of the PIR in 1940 ) but as the party of a group of intellectuals attracted by Trotsky 's ideas and personality . |
| 18 | The foreign ministers of the three Indo-Chinese regimes met on 5 January 1980 just before a visit to Hanoi by the Malaysian Foreign Minister . |
| 19 | The query command is shown in Figure 3.11 along with an example of its results in Figure 3.12 . |
| 20 | This entails an analysis of the origins of European Union during 1969-1972 together with a survey of its fortunes and changing interpretations during the subsequent period 1972-1984 . |
| 21 | SIX o'clock on a Friday night and , in the Lyttleton foyer , groups of people cluster noisily round the bar ; others , waiting for companions , finger books in the bookshop . |
| 22 | Yet Shirley Millings , walking across Southwark Bridge shortly before six o'clock on a June morning , rather liked the river at low tide . |
| 23 | Six o'clock on a Saturday night and |
| 24 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 25 | Some of them wanted to charge as much as twelve and six just for a skirt . |
| 26 | Hedley Wright slams another boundary off the Wivenhoe attack on his way to 85 out of a Bury St Edmunds total of 201 for six . |
| 27 | Although the Labour victory was an overwhelming one in terms of parliamentary seats — 393 out of a total of 640 , whereas the Conservatives and their allies obtained only 213 — the proportion of the voters who voted Labour was still less than half , at 47 — 8% . |
| 28 | In Sussex about 250,000 out of a total of 380,000 hectares ( some 65 per cent. ) are devoted to agriculture ( including small farm woodlands , agricultural buildings , etc . ) . |
| 29 | An Italian cabinet committee has approved plans to create a single telephone company , Telecom Italia SpA by the end of 1995 out of a merger of holding company Stet SpA , Sociata Italiana per l'esercisio delle Telecomunicazioni pA , the main phone company , Italcable SpA , the international carrier , and the satellite operator Telespazio SpA , according to the Financial Times . |
| 30 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |