Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partner will pay a flat rate Class 2 contribution of £267.80 together with a Class 4 contribution of 6.3% of profits between the lower earnings limit of £5,900 and the upper earnings limit of £20,820 which gives a Class 4 contribution of £905.94 . |
| 2 | In the UK , according to Piers Merchant , Director of Public Affairs for the Advertising Association , ‘ The total advertising spend for last year in all media was £7.5bn. so as a percentage of that tobacco advertising is very small … |
| 3 | In general you 're going to be paying £10 to £20 more for a fleece lined with Windstopper than a fleece lined or covered with some other material . |
| 4 | A JUDGE awarded £147,000 yesterday to a hero fireman left a nervous wreck by the Kings Cross fire disaster and told him : ‘ You are the most courageous man I have had the privilege of meeting . ’ |
| 5 | PRINCE Charles kept a low profile during an official visit yesterday when he was taken 20ft underground into a sewer . |
| 6 | when someone says to you er thirty five pence please for a newspaper , you might not have the common sense to realize |
| 7 | It is usually left to the parents to finance the shortfall and it can easily cost £10,000 today for a student to attend a three-year higher education course . |
| 8 | Half one until three forty five sequence dancing on at St John 's Church Hall on Greylands Road at Bilborough the cost is seventy five pence there including a cup of tea and bickies too . |
| 9 | I tend to leave the fish together for a week as there is no problem of egg-eating with Gold Australe . |
| 10 | Nance Rashleigh ripped out entrails and flung the gutted fish accurately into a barrel four feet away . |
| 11 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 12 | Make rows 23cm/9in apart with a stick or hoe and plant them about 10cm/4in apart with the tips just out of the soil . |
| 13 | Telephone exchange line rentals grew 5.5% to £2,233m mainly as a result of price re-balancing increases in September 1991 and January 1993 , and to a lesser extent due to growth in customer lines — there was a 1.8% rise in the number of residential lines and a 1.8% increase in business lines . |
| 14 | The hall would become alive with people rather like a railway terminus , and at the heart of the seeming chaos , controlling and directing , helping and explaining , were the staff of the reception desk . |
| 15 | Erm and this can leave people obviously with a number of traumas and a number of difficulties to deal with later on in life . |
| 16 | Situated between the two levels will be 19 hospitality boxes with full catering facilities for up to 200 people together with a club lounge and offices . |
| 17 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
| 18 | How does one go about luring people away from a profession that is said to be non-existent ? |
| 19 | At 0856:58 the crew reported level at 2,500ft , followed 44 sec later by a position report over the MN beacon . |
| 20 | It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time . |
| 21 | In many areas where they have been established , staying on rates have risen and they have proved to be popular with students and staff alike for a variety of reasons . |
| 22 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 23 | You will even be able to remember the items at random : 9 — a long line of Christmas trees , 4 — a dead aspidistra instead of a door handle … and so on . |
| 24 | Dead aspidistra ( linked to four — a door ) : A heavy wooden door with a dead aspidistra instead of a handle ; |
| 25 | The rufous ovenbird , a South American species rather like a thrush in shape and size , builds on a very large scale indeed . |
| 26 | We group them into species merely as a convenience ; if we did not do so , we could not give them names : hence ‘ nominalism ’ . |
| 27 | It is provided with two lenses ; the narrow-angle lens gives a view field measuring approximately 16cm horizontally by 8cm vertically at a viewing distance of one metre . |
| 28 | He knew too that Arsenal 's resources , swollen from early successes , gave him a big advantage in the transfer stakes : ‘ We can pay £2,000 more for a player than any other club . ’ |
| 29 | A big crust on the surface when the sun is beating down will be taken with relish , and a tiny morsel of crumb on the bottom will often tempt a chub even in a snowstorm . |
| 30 | Tom Cannon was paid £15,000 simply as a retainer in the 1880s and Vamplew has calculated that the best riders in the period 1870–1914 might earn £75,000 in their careers . |