Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | five thousand pound and either a the diploma or a membership . |
| 2 | With just one board and maybe a couple of different size sails anyone from eight to eighty can get out there and have a go . |
| 3 | Men may wish to use a jacket for one piece and only a sweater for the other . |
| 4 | A similar DOE has been found in experiments by Edwards , Jagielo , Zentall and Hogan ( 1982 ) , who used different types of grain to differentiate the outcomes , and by Peterson and Trapold ( 1984 ) who presented ( in the correlated condition ) food after a correct response for one trial-type and just a feedback tone for a correct response for the other type of trial . |
| 5 | With only six grades for such a large group of staff , it was not felt sensible , however , to use a system which apparently stated that a post scoring x points was clearly in one grade and yet a post scoring x 5 points was , equally clearly , in a different grade ( all possible scores were multiples of 5 and the range of possible scores was approximately 135 to 1500 ) . |
| 6 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 7 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 8 | Jimbo himself had made the one effort that only a patient can make . |
| 9 | Rather , erm , one was in one position and then a second took up a different position . |
| 10 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 11 | They sit tight , are unlikely to budge unless really disturbed and can be easily shot with a .22 rifle or even a high-powered air rifle . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough battled every inch of the way to gain a creditable 0–0 draw and only a second leg at Old Trafford now lies between Middlesbrough and their second Wembley Cup Final in two years . |