Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a value for money sire he has a PIN index ranking of £54 and a semen cost of £15 a straw . |
| 2 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 3 | Each show day will have various qualifiers for all grades of horses and ponies , including amateurs , with the finals being held on Sunday including a Grand Prix for Grade A horses with a prize fund of £1,500 and a speed class worth £600 . |
| 4 | In Essex recently a main contractor was fined £1,500 and a roofing contractor £3,000 after an incident in which roof edge protection had not been provided . |
| 5 | AT Sainsbury 's , English matured cheddar is reduced from £2.25 to £1.99 a lb , a dozen eggs from £1.20 to 99p , a large pot of French set yoghurt from 93p to 75p , 500g of Sunflower margarine from 63p to 49p and a raspberry trifle from 42p to 36p . |
| 6 | ROS membrane vesicles containing trapped Arsenazo III dye were then added to buffer C in a cuvette to a final volume of 2ml and a protein concentration of 0.29mgml - either in the absence or presence of 4μgml - ( 235nM ) calmodulin ( Sigma ) . |
| 7 | The information includes a list of indexing terms showing all the topics covered by the data and a catalogue record giving the Archive number , the title , access conditions , data processing codes , the names of principal investigators , data collectors , sponsors and depositors , an abstract detailing the main purposes of the research , and main variables . |
| 8 | Of course , you can alter the appearance of the graph — by selecting different fonts , by increasing the size of the legend or by specifying a 3D display , for example , by using the usual //Graphics menu — but if you just want a feel for your data and a starting point for further embellishments then Fast Graphing is very useful . |
| 9 | The Commission has stated that it will not use these powers in respect of mergers with a worldwide turnover of less than 2,000 million ecu and a Community turnover of less than 100 million ecu ( that is between approximately £1400 million and £700 million ) . |
| 10 | Historians are not going to have much success convincing these companies to retain this data unless a business case can be established or there are legal requirements that foster its preservation . |
| 11 | Moving on its drive to attract as many ISVs to UnixWare as possible , Univel has kicked off another phase of its developers ' programme that will get the software into vendors ' hands at reduced prices : Independent software vendors can get a Personal Edition bundled with a Software Developers Kit for $600 and a Application Server bundled with a SDK for $900 . |
| 12 | In the boot was a large pile of tins of tuna-fish and a harvest wreath that had clearly been designed by Marjorie Quigley . |
| 13 | Affection however , returned to the furniture with an oak sideboard making £300 ; a large pine table £240 and a mahogany desk £250 . |
| 14 | In 1985 , Norman Broadbent 's chairman and seven consultants were responsible for the completion of 143 assignments — 53% in financial services and 47% in industrial and commercial services — which , at an average of £23000 per assignment , produced a turnover of £3.3m. and a trading profit of £1m . |
| 15 | In straight and level flight , 2,250 rpm gives 115 mph and a fuel burn under five gallons an hour . |
| 16 | Turrican 2 : The Final Fight received 96% and a Gold Medal accolade when first reviewed in Issue 70 . |
| 17 | Members enthusiastically supported the retiring national chairman 's Birthday Scheme to raise funds to give each of the widows and ex-servicemen £5 and a birthday card . |
| 18 | the prize of £1000 and a silver cup was presented to her at the college by Chief Executive , Best Western Hotels . |
| 19 | A luxury double room starts at £135 and a coronet room at £155 . |
| 20 | ‘ So it makes no sense at all for the bookseller to be buying and promoting a new title at , say , £14.99 when a book club has already offered it to its public at £8.99 — as happened last month . |
| 21 | Travelling 215 miles to Paris , business-class , costs £158 and a 217-mile trip to Brussels is £152 . |
| 22 | For a load force of 9 kN and a leadscrew pitch of 0.5 mm calculate the static position error if the stepping motor has the torque/position characteristic shown in Fig. 3.2 . |
| 23 | Ocobamba is a little village with a church , barracks and a village square . |
| 24 | Statistical methods — Sample sizes of 15 to 20 in each group were targeted to detect a reduction in median number of transfusions from two to one per infant and an increase in the mean of median arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios on day 1 from 0.3 to 0.5 with a power of 80% and a significance level of 5% . |
| 25 | Prices start at $140,000 and a base configuration is bundled with $25,000 of software . |
| 26 | Prices start at $140,000 and a base configuration is bundled with $25,000 of software . |
| 27 | Geographically , this may bring in the concept of relative location , for instance , the distance in travel time between the corporate headquarters and a branch factory . |
| 28 | A Clownfish , marine Angelfish or a Piranha will each cost you £20 , and Electric Eel £40 and a Shark £90 . |
| 29 | HP 's network licence system — also included in DME — will be available for OpenView in July and costs £4,400 , a distributed network advisor due in July will cost £1,800 and a Probe Manager , expected in September , will start at £2,270 . |
| 30 | Former Beirut hostage Brian Keenan was awarded the Time-Life Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction ( £1,000 and a silver pen ) for An Evil Cradling ( Hutchinson/Vintage , April £6.99 ) . |