Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The load on the UPS has a maximum rating , typically around 250 to 500 watts for a PC , and this must not be exceeded or the UPS will be overloaded . |
| 2 | Shell , one of the League 's top offensive tackles for 15 years , made the Pro Bowl eight times as a Raider . |
| 3 | Eleven months after a pensioner was found dead in his home , one of his neighbours has been charged with murdering him . |
| 4 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before a LIFESPAN shut down so that any outstanding transactions may be given sufficient time to complete . |
| 5 | The majority , a balance of 75% , are bullish about UK equities over the coming 12 months while a balance of 51% are enthusiastic about Japanese shares . |
| 6 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |
| 7 | Firemen rescued 30 pigeons after a blaze in a car threatened to spread to their loft in Hutone Place in Hartlepool . |
| 8 | It would be another six years before a Virgin office would open in America again . |
| 9 | If they did , it will be at least 10 years before a cure is developed . |
| 10 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 11 | Leeds new centre signing Kevin Iro wo n't make his debut for at least six weeks after a specialist said that the Kiwi international 's injury was worse than first feared . |
| 12 | Sickness benefit is payable for up to twenty-eight weeks if a person is incapacitated for work at the rate of£33.20 a week , together with £20.55 for an adult dependant . |
| 13 | Holdsworth , a £725,000 summer signing from Brentford , has not scored in six matches since a hernia operation . |
| 14 | In 1958 , fifty years after A Room with a View was first published , Forster added an appendix to it in which he described the fate of his characters after the First World War was ended : |
| 15 | ‘ Ards have been out of the picture since then but I 've enjoyed a good Irish Cup record at my other clubs , getting to the final three times as a player and twice as Larne 's manager . |
| 16 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 17 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 18 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 19 | Under the affordable-housing programme , houses valued at under $67,500 and apartment complexes are held off the open market for 90 days after a thrift is seized by the government . |
| 20 | His fire-raising spree lasted three weeks until a farmer spotted his car near a blaze he had started . |
| 21 | For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy . |
| 22 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 23 | It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached . |
| 24 | A shower will use approximately 30 litres of water compared to 90 litres for a bath . |
| 25 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 26 | Angolan radio announced on April 18 that agreement had been reached on unification of the two military forces , and Portuguese media reported on April 19 that it had been agreed to hold free elections 18 months after a ceasefire was signed . |
| 27 | Fourteen days after a Proof has been allowed , each party is required to intimate to his opponents a list of documents which are or have been in his possession relating to the matters in dispute in the action . |
| 28 | Midlands Electricity has been fined more than ( 29,000 ) twenty nine thousand pounds after a contractor was killed in an explosion at a power station . |
| 29 | Taking the node in figures 3.6 and 3.7 to be 10 bytes ( 2 chars and 2 pointers , assuming 4 bytes for a pointer , i.e. a 32 bit word length machine ) , the trie would use 180 bytes ( 18 nodes 10 bytes each ) , whereas the dawg would use only 110 bytes ( 11 nodes ) . |
| 30 | It seems that the Sultan was one of the first victims of non-standardization ; he paid a thousand dollars for a machine for which only one cylinder was ever made ! |