Example sentences of "[n mass] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US plans to start airdrops towards the end of this week with about two aircraft a day dropping key food and medical supplies to small communities . |
| 2 | The US plans to start airdrops towards the end of this week with about two aircraft a day dropping key food and medical supplies to small communities cut off for 10 months . |
| 3 | In fact , for a child under 11 , a mother receives precisely £l.68 a day to meet all needs : food , heating , light , clothes , shoes , entertainment , presents , fares . |
| 4 | We are going to be asking our members to pay a further ten pence a week to maintain front-line services , but they feel they are not getting any . |
| 5 | It costs £100000 a minute to produce top quality graphics , on a computer system costing £10 million , so the people paying do not want something that looks as if it was shot with a camera for a few thousand pounds . |
| 6 | And anyway , the thought of spending January and February in Spain or Portugal for as little as £10 a day seems attractive in its own right . |
| 7 | 3DO Co Inc , San Mateo , California has filled in the details on its planned initial public offering and has filed to offer 2.2m shares , all new , at a target price of $11 a share to raise working capital to fund anticipated operating losses . |
| 8 | The Department of Health has given the boards £60 a head to train 23 000 eligible HVs and DNs over the next two years . |
| 9 | It might cost 3p a day to take one of our products as a form of protection against heart disease or as a way of helping relieve the symptoms of rheumatism or arthritis . |
| 10 | Britain 's local councils charge £6-10 a ton to put solid waste in landfills : a price , say the commercial firms , that does not reflect capital investment or the sums that must be et aside to ensure a landfill is properly maintained during its 30 years or so of life . |
| 11 | But not only will real voters be asked to exercise the franchise on behalf of local councillors next Thursday , the Speakership and the Labour leadership elections have offered MPs a chance to play this most invigorating of democratic games . |
| 12 | Instead of paying a farmer something like £200 a year to grow unwanted cereals on a hectare of land , a similar sum would be paid to encourage a more desirable land use . |
| 13 | That beats even the £1,784 a week paid last year for unemployed interior designer Peter Julien 's house in Hampstead , London . |
| 14 | The station which renewed its licence for only £2,000 a year made bumper sales to the ITV network with Taggart and Wheel of Fortune . |
| 15 | Whitminster costs £2,000 a week to keep open , but it is in the black . |
| 16 | Mr Brown says it would need to charge $13 a ton to break even . |
| 17 | Equinox Systems Inc , making input-output controller boards for multi-user computers in Fort Lauderdale , Florida has filed to go public with an initial offer of up to 1.5m shares , 1m of them new , at a target price of $11.50 to $13.50 a share to raise some $12m for working capital . |
| 18 | Assuming £100 a foot to build 60,000 square feet , this would bring the total cost to £20m , a scandalous figure for any efficient organisation to even contemplate . |
| 19 | It costs up to £18,000 a year to educate one child , although the results are there for all to see . |
| 20 | IRG Technologies Inc , Richardson , Texas distributor of computer peripherals , filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission to go public with an initial offer of up to 2.75m common shares , 2.3m of them new , at a target price of between $10 and $12 a share to raise some $25m to repay debt and for working capital ; Montgomery Securities , Kemper Securities and Raymond James & Associates will co-manage . |