Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM claims that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 2 | IBM Corp claimed yesterday that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 3 | For the average householder using 3,600 standard rate units per year , the review will mean paying less than 2p more a day . |
| 4 | Men in general bring in higher wages than women so a family with a male partner will almost always have a higher family income than a family of a lone woman . |
| 5 | Another component has been reflected from points other than P. Only a part of the received signal represents energy reflected from point P. The effects of scattering diminish the usefulness of shorter wavelengths for remote sensing . |