Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun prp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later the muezzin of a hundred Delhi mosques called the Faithful to prayer with a loud cry of ‘ Allaaaaah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 2 | The vessel was carrying one million litres ( more than a quarter of a million US gallons ) of oil , diesel , jet fuel , and compressed gas . |
| 3 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |
| 4 | When details of a massive US arms package to Saudi Arabia were released in late August [ see below ] , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir openly criticized the move and called on the USA to supply Israel with an equivalent package . |
| 5 | In what must rank as the most offal moment in the history of Hampden Babylon , the paper reported the sonorous tones of a senior Strathclyde police spokesman : ‘ We can confirm that a 38 year old man is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal . |
| 6 | The human resources director of a large UK wines and spirits business also suggested that once total costs were taken into account , it could be argued that headhunters were not necessarily more expensive than using home-grown methods . |
| 7 | An envelope of a few Liverpool sermons survived ; including the first sermon which he ever delivered there ( text I Peter 2 : 9 , ‘ ye are an elect race ’ ) . |
| 8 | The over zealous activities of a few PR advisers who succumb to this should not be allowed to damn the profession as a whole , he said . |
| 9 | The essentially one-day match contract for Chris Cowdrey is seen as rather ‘ something or nothing ’ in the words of a few Sophia punters . |