Example sentences of "a [num ord] [coord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 2 | When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes . |
| 3 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
| 4 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 5 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |
| 6 | So you 've then got a minor second , a third , a sixth and a seventh . |
| 7 | In total , monks and nuns disposed of between a sixth and a seventh of all Domesday landed value . |
| 8 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 9 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 10 | So if we had a sixth and a twelfth well the sixth is the same as two twelfth and another twelfth makes how many ? |
| 11 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 12 | So we must be shared now this is the interesting thing which do you think is bigger , a a sixth or a third . |
| 13 | A fourth okay which is bigger a fourth or a sixth ? |
| 14 | A fourth or a special name for it a quarter |
| 15 | One petitioner wants a grant to repair the leaky roof of his house , another a grant to clear the stream running past his farm , another wants a Council job and a fourth and a fifth want help with social welfare applications . |
| 16 | And then the third and then the third and a fourth and a fifth and so on all the way through . |
| 17 | Major and minor 2nds are perhaps best avoided except when an open string can be used e.g. : ( transpose a fifth or a ninth higher for the other strings ) . |
| 18 | Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used . |
| 19 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 20 | A second airport terminal was opened in 1990 and there are plans to reclaim more land for a third and a fourth . |
| 21 | Gathering her wits , she hurried into the workshop and picked up a last and a half-tapped boon Returning to the kitchen , she indicated with a nod of her head that Craig sit on the stool near the fire . |
| 22 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 23 | Now , nearly the whole output of houses is built under contract to local authorities and the remainder — between a tenth and a fifth of the whole — are built by licence to individual order . |
| 24 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |
| 25 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 26 | In November 1294 a tenth was demanded of them in the shires , a sixth in the boroughs ; in December 1295 an eleventh and a seventh were sought ; a year later , in December 1296 , a twelfth and an eighth ; in July 1297 an eighth and a fifth , although this grant was not in fact raised . |
| 27 | In November 1294 a tenth was demanded of them in the shires , a sixth in the boroughs ; in December 1295 an eleventh and a seventh were sought ; a year later , in December 1296 , a twelfth and an eighth ; in July 1297 an eighth and a fifth , although this grant was not in fact raised . |
| 28 | Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall . |