Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enquiries at Camborne rose from 750 a month to 1,100 a month after the new post was filled . |
| 2 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 3 | While the average number of deaths climbed by 37,000 a year between these two periods and the rate of net emigration from the UK is estimated to have increased by 47,000 a year , the annual average number of births fell by 222,000 . |
| 4 | Then Chrysler announced in 1953 a slimmer , shorter , more compact and parkable car to meet modern conditions . |
| 5 | The gains recorded by the top 10 per cent of households amounted to 40 a week , mostly in lower taxes , while the middle income groups were little affected and the poorer ones lost over 10 a week in benefits and higher VAT . |
| 6 | When the Bastille fell in 1789 a wave of euphoria swept over Europe ; William Blake , blending together millennial hopes and biblical imagery , demonstrates the emotional release provided by the success of two revolutions accomplished overseas and the hope of a third to follow in England itself : |
| 7 | According to the association 's annual survey , the number of robots in Britain grew from 713 a year earlier to 1152 at the end of 1982 . |
| 8 | Griffith-Boscawen introduced in 1912 a Bill to make improvement grants for rural housing , a proposal that provided a Unionist response to Lloyd George 's Land Campaign . |
| 9 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 10 | What began as a logical extension of growing aristocratic authority became by 1800 a byword for jobbery , corruption and intimidation.6 Until the partial reforms of 1832 , Sussex as a whole sent 24 representatives to the House of Commons . |
| 11 | In a Don Featherstone South Bank Show ( LWT ) of high quality and unusual form , the novelist Thomas Keneally recreated in 1989 a research trip through Eritrea which he made in 1987 while gestating his new book Towards Asmara . |