Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 2 | In answer to one question , Duncan MacIndeor , a 75 years old roadman from Kilmeny said , " I was a farmer at Airidh-Ghuairidh for 23 years . |
| 3 | That compares with a forty pounds fixed penalty fine . |
| 4 | The charge is intended to cover the cost of creating the stacked tapes , media , documentation , and the shipping charges — but $580 on a 1,600 bpi half-inch reel tape , $375 on a 120 quarter inch cartridge , $195 on a 525 sounds exorbitant . |
| 5 | For example a fourteen-two hands high horse is fifty-eight . |
| 6 | Sheephaven Bay must make a 360 miles round trip for their opening fixture at Donaghadee . |
| 7 | Lane 1 , Hind III digested λ DNA ( 0.2 µg ) ; lane 2 and 6 , Bam HI- Pst I digested pPYACRC5 DNA ( 0.5 ng ) , ( lane 6 corresponds to a 10 times shorter exposure to autoradiography ) ; lanes 3 to 5 , PstI digested DNA ( 1 µg ) from three unstable pPYACRC5 transformants . |
| 8 | He found a fossilised head which belonged to a 10 feet long scorpion . |
| 9 | One of the proposals to relieve traffic congestion on Buxton Road seemed to envisage — details were difficult to obtain using the trackbed of the railway line together with a 100 feet wide portion of the field to create an urban motorway . |
| 10 | the Duke had a 100 winners last season his best ever … |
| 11 | Created by Steve Chadwick , ‘ The Bunker ’ features a variety of climbing surfaces including a 45 degrees overhanging wall , a two metres roof , a number of mini routes and a slab for beginners . |
| 12 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 13 | Gloucester have lost more than a dozen players this season … they nearly lost more than that … a place in the first division . |
| 14 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 15 | By the way , under the grill pan there 's enough space to warm half a dozen plates any time the oven or hob is on . |
| 16 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 17 | You ca n't miss the letter from John Major — there 's a three feet high blow up of it in shop window of the games sports shop in cheltenham . |
| 18 | You ca n't miss the letter from John Major — there 's a three feet high blow up of it in shop window of the games sports shop in cheltenham . |
| 19 | As Tom Sanders , reader in nutrition at King 's College , London , and nutritional director of the Family Heart Association , puts it : ‘ If your blood cholesterol level is above 6.5-7.5 , you have a three times higher risk of heart disease . |
| 20 | If your blood cholesterol level is above 6.5-7.5 , you have a three times higher risk of heart disease . |
| 21 | The technique also enables them to opt for a 4 ohms working impedance ( as opposed to the norm of 8 ohms ) in the knowledge that this figure is much more consistent than the nominal figure given for almost all other loudspeakers ( in one or two notable designs the impedance dips almost to a short-circuit at certain frequencies , making them un-usuable with many amplifiers ) . |
| 22 | We do have You know we sold a thousand favours this way , it 's not bad . |
| 23 | PAUL GASCOIGNE broke a thousand hearts last night when he revealed the name of the person he hopes to marry — Lazio captain Claudio Sclosa , the player he debagged at Spurs . |
| 24 | The council hopes to shred more than a thousand trees this year … turning them into wood chips … |
| 25 | Among 400 different brand names Eskimo Pie has held its own , selling half a billion bars each year . |
| 26 | Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year , worth about £90m . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's simple economics — we 've saved a billion dollars this way . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The warning follows a string of incidents including one in which a five years old child burned down the family home , killing his sister , after watching cartoon characters playing with fire . |
| 30 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |