Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force-landed in the Saudi desert at dawn , a 100 miles to the south of Bahrain and the starboard undercarriage leg collapsed . |
| 2 | There is also a plan for over a 100 turbines in the Cambrian Mountains in Wales . |
| 3 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 4 | A dozen girls from the school went to universities each year , very few of them to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 5 | There would also be a dozen girls from the brothel in attendance , they would provide colour , and nothing more . |
| 6 | It opened out into the infirmary : There were half a dozen prisoners in the beds ; other men in white overalls moved among them , performing their duties . |
| 7 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 8 | Thomas Deloney , reckoned to be England 's first novelist , mentions dastardly goings-on there in the late 1500s , so the Ostrich has the distinction of being one of the half a dozen claimants to the title of oldest inn in England , and is also the first mentioned in an English novel . |
| 9 | He also said that he was convinced that South African agents and others concerned with intelligence gathering were responsible for more than a dozen burglaries at the houses and offices of himself and his professional advisers . |
| 10 | The cause at issue right now was the planning application for half a dozen houses in the orchard attached to a cottage in the centre of the village , the property of a local farmer . |
| 11 | Like the Exhilarator and he owns leases on half a dozen pubs in the new dockland , and he does a bit of importing — high value stuff like furs or cars . |
| 12 | Fifth , an interim report of the Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project ( Gay et al .1985 ) , which investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during the one-year period ending March 1985 , reported an estimated annual prevalence rate of 0.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the total Bristol population . |
| 13 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 14 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 15 | Thin beads of light were pulsing from a dozen locations on the convoluted spiral arms of the space station . |
| 16 | You would n't you 'd probably find that you would use it half a dozen times through the year . |
| 17 | Queen Victoria and George V presided a dozen times over the formation of minority or coalition governments . |
| 18 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 19 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
| 20 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 21 | After coming up with the idea of the specialised oil , Augusto Odone contacted a dozen scientists around the world working on myelin repair . |
| 22 | He had made no more than half a dozen strides towards the heart of the encampment when Owen called him back suddenly , in a sharp , changed voice ; and when he looked back in surprise : |
| 23 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 24 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 25 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
| 26 | Half a dozen programmes in the series are being produced and directed by Medwen Roberts of Mold-based Ffilmiau Hiraethog , one of the few independent producers in Clwyd . |
| 27 | me half a dozen inches from the ground . |
| 28 | Since joining Cardiff , Walker has become an overnight success , scoring eight First Division tries in a dozen matches as the club have moved up from strugglers last season to table-toppers . |
| 29 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 30 | Has a very calm nature and er explosive turn of pace and all round looks very promising this nineteen year old who 's made only about half a dozen appearances in the first team . |