Example sentences of "of a [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diary of a fifteen year old 9th October 1993 |
| 2 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 3 | First tonight , Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a fifteen year old Bathgate girl . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the funeral has been held of a fifteen year old girl who was killed in a crash involving a stolen car . |
| 5 | Now back to the inquest into the death of a fifteen year old hunt saboteur from Milton Keynes who was crushed by a horse box at a hunt in Cambridgeshire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The parents of a nine year old girl who died while being treated at hospital say an internal inquiry was just a white wash . |
| 8 | Within the last fortnight , we have seen the release on parole of one offender after serving just 22 months of a five year sentence for sexual offences against at least a dozen young boys , and the sentencing of another man to life imprisonment after a sexual orgy resulting in the death of a nine year old . |
| 9 | I mean maybe you 're thinking of the sort of publicized cases of a nine year old , I believe it was , who 's got A levels in mathematics . |
| 10 | I mean maybe you 're thinking of the sort of publicized cases of a nine year old , I believe it was , who 's got A levels in mathematics . |
| 11 | The body of a sixty year old man has been discovered in a council flat , almost three months after he died of natural causes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 14 | Sophisticated DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting , has already linked the 2 rapes of a 14 year old girl and a 19 year old woman . |
| 15 | Sophisticated DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting , has already linked the 2 rapes of a 14 year old girl and a 19 year old woman . |
| 16 | The result was the setting up of a 16 point Green Plan . |
| 17 | The project suddenly became interesting when they were forcing deuterium in to a 1 cm 3 block of palladium ( ‘ charging the palladium ’ ) by means of a 1.5 amp electrical current . |
| 18 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 19 | New Chinese energy initiatives include the restoration of a 2,000 year old aqueduct system and introducing solar energy installations in schools . |
| 20 | Relatives of a ninety-one year old widow left battered in her own home are pleading for the public to help catch her attacker . |
| 21 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 22 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 23 | In Somalia the combination of war and famine claimed a quarter of a million children dead last year . |
| 24 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 25 | That 's three quarters of a million years old . |
| 26 | Designed to rival warm hatch cars like the Citroen ZX Furio or Nissan Sunny SR , the unit is capable of a 8. second 0–60 mph sprint . |
| 27 | A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner . |
| 28 | We describe the case of a 17 year old woman who was referred to our service for treatment of panic attacks . |
| 29 | On an acupuncture ward I watched a doctor insert long copper needles into the scalp of a one year old and saw the baby howl when every ten minutes the needles were twisted to stimulate the body energy . |
| 30 | An investigation has been launched into the death of a one year old boy . |