Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | Radio Australia reported on Nov. 12 that a director of China 's Public Security Bureau had informed a visiting Australian human rights delegation that there were 4,000 prisoners currently in prison in China for crimes of subversion and counter-revolution . |
2 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
3 | Radio Bangladesh reported on April 2 that a number of the refugees were dying in their camps in Bangladesh as a result of " diarrhoea , acute respiratory problems , gastric and gynaecological diseases " . |
4 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
5 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
6 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
7 | A pH of around 7–7.5 and a temperature of 82–84°s ; should also be aimed for . |
8 | The Poor Law was the most comprehensive official source for the relief of poverty , administered in England and Wales as laid down by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and a succession of later amendments , in Scotland and Ireland according to different statutes and rather different principles . |
9 | he in Bromborough between 30 April 1986 and 30 September 1991 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1986 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with Statement of Standard Acounting Practice ( SSAP ) 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and |
10 | he in Bromborough between 28 February 1989 and 1 April 1989 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1987 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with SSAP 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and |
11 | he in Bromborough between 30 April 1990 and 1 June 1990 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1988 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with SSAP 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and |
12 | he in Bromborough between 30 April 1988 and 8 February 1991 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1989 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with SSAP 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and in that |
13 | After lunch ( not included ) visit the Medieval town of Gouda , famous for its cheese but with a lot more to discover such as St. Jans Kerk which contains over half of Holland 's antique stained-glass windows , the Gothic City Hall dating back to 1430 and a collection of fascinating museums . |
14 | 2 If a Bill of Rights is somehow entrenched as a higher law , then all ordinary legislation will need to be checked against that law . |
15 | Sixty five pounds , gloves , forty and a set of shirts , two hundred and fifty eight . |
16 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |
17 | There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice . |
18 | These criticisms continued to be levelled at the many standard forms produced in 1963 , but it was not until 1980 that a number of new forms appeared , the lengthy gestation period reflecting the difficulties in satisfying the disparate interests of the constituent members of the Joint Contracts Tribunal . |
19 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
20 | IRNA said on Feb. 26 that a total of 9,657 refugees from 27 countries had fled to Iran from Iraq since the outbreak of the war . |
21 | The State Council spokesman , Yuan Mu , said on Jan. 10 that a policy of " leniency " was being adopted in the trials , which were closed to foreign observers . |
22 | the LEA offered no grant-aid in support of the four WEA Terminal courses Jacques arranged in 1936–37 although a grant of £40 was promised for 1937–38 . |
23 | I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000 . |
24 | OPPOSITE Michael Haydn ( 1737–1806 ) , the younger brother of Joseph Haydn , was the music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg from 1762 and a friend of the Mozarts ; anonymous artist . |
25 | Stutchbury was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1828 and a fellow of the Geological Society in 1841 . |
26 | Zeta is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 3.6 to 4.1 and a period of 1.67 days ; suitable comparisons are Eta ( 4.4 ) , Delta and Chi Eridani ( 3.7 ) . |
27 | For your records I would inform you that the name of this charitable organisation changed from ‘ Council ’ to ‘ Campaign ’ in 1991 and a copy of the relevant minute is attached . |
28 | The trial was analysed up to the 31 January 1991 and a minimum of 16 months after the last patient was recruited into the study . |
29 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
30 | Nearly 1,200 and a petition of 467 names objected . |