Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the interesting bit here for the Tories was that in 1916 a Welshman became Prime Minister . |
| 2 | You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ . |
| 3 | In January 1990 it was disclosed that in 1976 a meltdown at Greifswald had only narrowly been averted . |
| 4 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 5 | Scolding wives seem to have predominated , so much so that in 1673 a jury demanded that the borough provide a cage and ducking-stool for the punishment of scolds and ‘ lewd ’ women . |
| 6 | Anjou wines are so distinctive , that in 1920 a competition was held to design a glass to do them justice . |
| 7 | With binoculars the chances are obviously much less , but one never knows — and it is true that in 1885 a supernova blazed out in the Andromeda Spiral and almost reached naked-eye visibility . |
| 8 | Moreover , it is of interest that in 1279 a defendant was acquitted of rape because ‘ he was betrothed to J [ the complainant ] before he lay with her . ’ |
| 9 | The Doctor had explained that in 1969 a man had walked on the moon ; that unmanned space flights to other stars had been sent out in the 1970s and towards the end of the twentieth century manned space flights had visited other planets in the solar system . |
| 10 | Is he aware of the work that the Scottish Knitwear Council has been doing with departmental officials showing that in 1990 a total of 123,000 knitted garments in cashmere coming from China were dumped over the quota agreed ? |
| 11 | The Lost Land , published by the Council for the Protection of Rural England , estimates that since 1945 a total of 1,500,000 hectares has been lost . |
| 12 | The French car company , Peugeot , which is developing electric models , estimates that by 1995 a total of 200,000 electric cars will be sold in Europe each year . |
| 13 | The Government hopes that by 1996 a quarter of all 16-year-olds will be studying for GNVQs , and up to 1/2 by the end of the decade . |