Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them .
2 Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far .
3 Beyond the town quay the strength reaches force 4 to 7 and more during a session ; and it 's not so strong .
4 DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook .
5 In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder .
6 And since he was in his late thirties and apparently without a cent to show for it , the conclusion was obvious .
7 And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper .
8 Tom Sneva , a former winner of the Indianapolis 500 but out of a drive in CART racing this year , entered the Formula 3 support race at Phoenix .
9 They usually play to 100,000 or so at a time , so it should be fun .
10 Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment .
11 The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide .
12 and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ?
13 They were Gillian Stewart and Carl Mason , also round in 69 and also with a plan .
14 This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war .
15 Sun still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay a huge dividend by taking the company through ‘ 93 and beyond on a price/performance basis .
16 At only $1 billion or so for a 50% stake , the price strikes some industry observers as a steal .
17 Its aim is to introduce people who are 50 or over to a whole new range of activities and opportunities so they can realise and put into practice their own particular talents .
18 With the proclamation of the principle of conservation of energy by Helmholtz in Berlin from 1847 and then in a public lecture delivered at Königsberg on 7 February 1854 , the whole range of physical sciences began to take a new shape .
19 O nine O four six four one six four one and perhaps on a lighter note according to speculation in the Yorkshire Post newspaper this morning Gazzer could be heading towards Alan Rhodes .
20 The effect of NO synthase inhibition was not only indicated by an increase in the maximal response induced by CCK-8 but also by a prolonged duration of the response .
21 So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization .
22 Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight
23 In pairs then in fours and finally as a whole staff mark the performance of your school as a point laying between each pair of opposites .
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