Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 2 | Strategically sited wind-breaks reduce the impact of strong winds and provide more vulnerable plants with essential shelter for a distance many times the height of the wind-break . |
| 3 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 4 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 5 | A classic ‘ confrontation ’ is expected , but not a classic 90 minutes the purists would drool over . |
| 6 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 7 | This they achieved with stunning success , building up a trade several times the size of their previous home market . |
| 8 | A word that coins the same message . |
| 9 | I mean , a lot more mess and a lot more doings the other way . |
| 10 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |
| 11 | In December 1941 , 2/2 Company sailed as part of Sparrow Force , 2,000 men in all mainly from the 2/40 Battalion going to reinforce the Dutch on western Timor , an island seventeen times the area of England and Wales , about 300 miles ( 480+km ) long and on average 40 miles ( 64km ) wide . |
| 12 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 13 | Businessmen from Sunkyong and Samling visited Guyana in March to open negotiations with the government and , on 17 October , signed a 25-year lease on 16,700km 2 of virgin forest — an area 10 times the size of Greater London . |
| 14 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |