Example sentences of "end of a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 2 | Her qualification comes at the end of a two year distance learning course , during which time Irene had to attend Robert Gordon 's University for five days every three months , complete and pass six modules as well as writing a 10,000 word research based dissertation . |
| 3 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 4 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 5 | The only time we may ask you to make out a new schedule is , if at the end of a twelve months period , the amount owing on your Home Management Account is higher than one monthly transfer . |
| 6 | And in 1959 , Suffolk welcomed the end of a 57 day drought . |
| 7 | Before Curtis 's bleared but exultant vision , the big green Cadillac swerved completely out of control at the end of a hundred yard , rubber-shredding skid , when the front nearside tyre blew out . |
| 8 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 9 | Because at no metres there 's one post and at the end of a hundred metres you 've got two posts so you got one post more |
| 10 | Further studies in Sprague-Dawley rats showed that intraperitoneal or intravenous injection of VPDPR changed the pattern but not the overall consumption of food with a reduced intake at the beginning and increased intake at the end of a four hour test period . |
| 11 | In these studies , however , the rise in PYY concentrations was not detectable until the end of a one hour infusion of oleate in the colon , and the highest PYY concentrations were not seen until one hour after the infusion had finished . |
| 12 | Pancreatic blood flow as measured by laser Doppler flowmetry at the end of a five hour infusion of caerulein or five hours after injection of platelet activating factor was reduced by about 50% ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 13 | The TESSA is a five year savings plan , which pays interest gross at the end of a five year period . |
| 14 | About this time a shaft had been started from the end of a 42 yds. long tunnel , Bouncy Level , driven into the vein from a point much higher up the boulder strewn fell-side quite close to the Crag . |
| 15 | THE Irish badminton team are in Birmingham preparing for their opening world championship group six match tomorrow against Iceland and the championships will mark the end of a 15 year spell for Joe Kinkead as manager of the Irish team . |
| 16 | Attitudes as well as writing skills will be compared in the two groups at the beginning and end of a 12 week experimental teaching period . |
| 17 | We had a short stop for refreshment , got out the pegs and the skyhook and secured an open krab onto the end of a three foot cheating stick ( which we had carefully hauled up all the way from the woods ) . |
| 18 | It marks the end of a three year campaign by the family to have their son receive special treatment . |
| 19 | At the eastern end of a three mile seafront lies the Old Town — once a small fishing village and later a major Cinque Port . |
| 20 | On December 14 , 1988 , at the end of a 65 day trial , in Cape Town , South Africa , fourteen Black activists , all members of Umkhonto We Sizwe , the armed wing of the African National Congress ANC ) , were sentenced to jail , for the ’ crime ’ of resisting the apartheid system . |
| 21 | Practice with ‘ sticks ’ ( miniature kites on the end of a I metre ( 39in ) dowel ) forms a good start for understanding both the figures and the jargon which has developed to describe the shapes . |
| 22 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |