Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or
2 It was announced on Feb. 22 that a government inquiry into the position of former East German Prime Minister Lothar De Maizière , who had been obliged to resign from the German Cabinet in December 1990 because of alleged connections with the Stasi [ see p. 37905 ] , had failed to prove that De Maizière had spied for the Stasi .
3 ( 57 ) A laser , 8 , 12 and a modulating FET 9 , 10 , 11 are integrated .
4 The calculated minimal sample size was eight subjects in each group , with an alpha risk of 0.05 and a beta risk of 0.10 .
5 Another case involved a collision in mid-air between an Iberian DC-9 and a Spantax Convair Coronado over Nantes in France , in which the great majority of the passengers in the DC-9 were British .
6 On this amp , Ch.1 is the lead channel and the standard volume , treble , middle , bass and master volume controls are also given the secondary tasks of channel select , gain 1 , gain 2 and a notch shift .
7 Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] .
8 A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them .
9 There is a cast of 100 and a stage crew of 20 but every pupil in the school was involved in the artwork , costumes and hall decorations .
10 Despite sore feet and blisters , they completed the 26 and a bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity .
11 The maintenance of an over-rate of at least 110 overs per six and a half-hour day .
12 My weight had by now gone down to six and a half stone .
13 When I reached six and a half stone or so , my periods stopped .
14 when I lost my six and a half stone
15 SLIPPERY customers have sloped off with an east Belfastman 's six and a half foot corn snake .
16 And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour .
17 And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour .
18 What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour .
19 Attlee 's tally it should be recalled , was 148 standing Cabinet committees and 313 ad hoc , accumulated over six and a quarter years .
20 Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon .
21 Instead we 've had limp-wristed pardoners , a well paid return after a couple of years and now the insult of Johnson being only 10 and a bit seconds from another Olympic final .
22 The redemption was completed in the autumn and the membership elected its first lady to the main committee , the able Joan Haley , handicap 10 and a County player .
23 no he would er nineteen and a half stone he popped his head in the door when I went to see Jimmy
24 With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close .
25 I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't
26 Eleven by eleven and a half foot I want .
27 Eleven eleven by eleven and a half foot .
28 He 's about thirty-five , dark , five foot eleven , eleven and a half stone .
29 Eleven and a half stone
30 nine stone seven , I said what you talking about nine stone seven , I 'm eleven and a half stone , not now you 're not she said
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