Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to human-rights workers , the number of people disappearing has dropped from 6,000 a year in 1989 to around 60 last year . |
| 2 | Two scientists from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell , Stewart and Crooks , reported in 1958 a ratio of polonium to iodine-131 of 1 to 38.6 on filters at Harwell , while readings made in Holland by Johans Blok indicated a ratio of 1 to 31 . |
| 3 | The number of people seeking refugee status has risen from 5,000 a year to 45,000 over the past four years . |
| 4 | About 70,000 vehicles are alleged to have been so financed last year and , by December , this figure was said to have risen to 17,000 a month at $25,000 ( £14,200 ) per vehicle . |
| 5 | A Harvard University research project produced in 1939 a Draft Convention on Judicial Assistance , Part II of which dealt with service of documents abroad . |
| 6 | The number of feis has mushroomed from four a year to virtually one a month in the North-East . |
| 7 | More than 600 new cases are emerging every week , compared with 437 a week last year . |
| 8 | But only 3,000 wildcat miners are digging at the mine , compared with 20,000 a year ago . |
| 9 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 10 | Sixty-one players , compared with 32 a year ago , will earn at least $3 million and 22 will get $4 million or more . |
| 11 | Because of the recession only six in ten of beds in the group 's 839 hotels were occupied compared with seven a year ago . |
| 12 | The overall number of entries for seven handicap races are also down on 1992 , to 394 from 443 , but Irish interest has risen sharply with 61 engaged this year , compared with 39 a year ago , which Cheltenham 's managing director , Edward Gillespie , said was great news . |
| 13 | Crowds for the 10 matches ( Manchester City and QPR play tonight ) totalled 212,558 , compared with 285,016 a year ago . |
| 14 | As of the beginning of 1992 , there were 60,000 private farms registered in Russia , compared with 4,500 a year earlier . |
| 15 | During last year 1,750 members resigned compared with 489 a year earlier . |
| 16 | In that time , car sales have rocketed from 180 a year to 2,000 new cars , about 1,500 used and 350 vans . |
| 17 | No sooner had ‘ Red ’ Braswell , then President of AKA , publicised in 1978 a conversion of the simple plastic-sailed Gayla ‘ Baby Bat ’ from single to two-line for what was then christened Figurekiting , than the inventive kiters in America applied new thought to open up a new phase . |
| 18 | When the Alliance between the Liberals and the Social Democrats was formed in 1981 a formula was devised for allocating constituencies between the two parties . |
| 19 | In the past 10 years drink-driving deaths have halved to 700 a year . |
| 20 | In reply to Lanark Road residents ’ objections , perhaps a good example of how carriageway reduction can simultaneously reduce traffic speed and volume is Niddrie Mains Road , where 4 lanes were reduced to 2 a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | But Jamie Borwick , managing director , said after the launch of the Fairway Driver ( pictured above ) the production rate has recovered to 40 a week . |
| 22 | The respiratory minute volume was never higher than 0.12 l and the frequency of respiration was set at 60 a minute . |
| 23 | A ballerina 's performances are limited to two a month , and so-called critics are ‘ dictated ’ what to write , so that she does n't get ideas . |
| 24 | So it is on the basis of us all ( EVEN I ! ) being human and fallible that I have to announce that it is scientifically almost impossible not to shed surplus body fat when calorie intake is strictly limited to 1,000 a day . |
| 25 | However , if the frequency of the taps is increased to four a second , its behaviour changes and it tries to crawl onto the stick . |
| 26 | They had been increased to six a year ; five for the Apprentices , conducted by the Demonstrator and one , the General Herborising , for Members only . |
| 27 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Indeed the Department of the Environment issued in 1976 a code of practice aimed at the prevention and abatement of smells from animal wastes which states that ‘ in any proceedings brought because of an alleged odour nuisance it may be a relevant consideration if the company has adhered to the code of practice to the best of its ability ’ . |
| 30 | The Association issued in 1975 a compendium , Not by books alone ( Waite and Colebourne 1975 ) but few of the reprinted articles were initiated within the SLA , which has unfortunately tended to resemble a pressure-group of teachers of English i/c Libraries rather than an innovatory body . |