Example sentences of "to a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shearer 's penalty capped a remarkable and decisive seven-minute spell in which Southampton , leading thanks to a 13th minute Iain Dowie header , had seen their visitors come back into the game with a 62nd minute equaliser from Les Ferdinand and then miss a 67th minute penalty through Clive Wilson . |
| 2 | A more recent view is that it was attached in the 14th century to a 13th century church . |
| 3 | Postal workers in the eastern Länder , whose salaries were 60 per cent lower than their western counterparts , went on strike on Jan. 24 in support of demands for a one-off payment equivalent to a 13th month 's salary to compensate for increased living costs . |
| 4 | As an introduction to a nineteenth century poet named John Jones , Southey discusses the careers of John Taylor , the seventeenth century waterman poet , and then four eighteenth century figures , Stephen Duck , James Woodhouse , John Frederick Bryant , and Ann Yearsley . |
| 5 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 6 | Prince Sihanouk himself proposed a compromise on Sept. 21 , whereby he would be appointed Chair and the SOC would be entitled to a seventh delegate . |
| 7 | The sixth phase would , he predicted , give way to a seventh age of genetic prediction . |
| 8 | Dedicated to a 7th century saint . |
| 9 | Peter Burridge had captained Millwall to a 4th Division promotion in 1962 and had thereby brought himself very much to the attention of Palace 's astute managerial team of Arthur Rowe and Dick Graham , both as an inspirational skipper and as a regular scorer of important goals . |
| 10 | The prince arrived 15 minutes late but during his hour-long visit to a 60th anniversary reception for the BBC , he made no reference to the news of his marriage split . |
| 11 | In his keynote speech to the conference on June 26 Hawke savagely attacked the Liberal-National Party opposition and promised to lead his party to a fifth election victory . |
| 12 | Rochford ran in a couple more tries , condemning Chelmsford to a fifth defeat in nine league games . |
| 13 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 14 | Simpkin also took Fiji to a fifth place finish in the inaugural World Cup . |
| 15 | It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court . |
| 16 | The deictic references to a first person speaker " I " and to his immediate surroundings ( " these " , " here " ) explicitly indicate the presence of a fictive poetic persona functioning as deictic centre in a specific spatio-temporal context . |
| 17 | Enright , the demonstrative " this ' highlights the spatial dimension of an implied situation of utterance , and therefore mobilises a poetic persona functioning as deictic centre even if no explicit reference is made to a first person speaker . |
| 18 | In the former , to a first approximation , the initial amount of radiocarbon in an organic sample is taken to be that in the atmosphere now , but many adjustments are made to this assumption as will be seen below . |
| 19 | One consequence of this is that , to a first approximation , most of the mechanical properties of different timbers are proportionate to their densities ; a timber twice as dense will be about twice as strong and so on . |
| 20 | CO molecules adsorbed in the vicinity of this charge will , to a first approximation , have their orbital binding energies rigidly downward-shifted , allowing increased electron transfer from the substrate into the lifetime-broadened CO 2 antibonding orbital . |
| 21 | If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist . |
| 22 | In evaluating this expression we first note that the metric connections are linear in h ; hence to a first approximation in h the form ( 7.4 ) or ( 7.5 ) can be used for the Riemann curvature tensor rather than ( 7.3 ) . |
| 23 | In fact these can legitimately be regarded as fluorine ‘ lone pair ’ orbitals quite distinct from the bonding , non-bonding and anti-bonding MOs which are analogous to those found for H 2 O. Similarly , presents us with yet another increase in complexity , but the additional orbitals can be regarded , at least to a first approximation , as ‘ CF 3 group ’ orbitals associated with CF bonding or with F atom lone pairs , again superimposed on a basic set of ‘ skeletal ’ MOs analogous to those found for H 2 O. |
| 24 | The bars of the histogram are arranged in descending order of size and it will usually be found that 80 per cent of the money will be associated with 20 per cent of the products , to a first approximation — the origin of the well-known 80–20 rule . |
| 25 | To a first approximation it is also possible to write thereby allowing use of the data from either type of measurement to characterize the sample . |
| 26 | The other part will reflect the cost of materials and labour used in producing the product and will therefore be , to a first approximation , linearly related to production volume . |
| 27 | The estimated income from the new product is , again to a first approximation , linearly related to the number of units invoiced . |
| 28 | The bars of the histogram are arranged in descending order of size and it will usually be found that 80 per cent of the money will be associated with 20 per cent of the products , to a first approximation — the origin of the well-known 80 — 20 rule . |
| 29 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 30 | Well she ca n't be much cop if she 'd open her legs to a first date to a Dutch s sailor . |