Example sentences of "on [num] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 75 days the smog was so bad that schoolchildren were advised to stay indoors . |
| 2 | They represent acceptable exposure levels based on eight hours a day for five days a week . |
| 3 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 4 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 5 | If you are dieting on 850 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 450 calories a day . |
| 6 | Any advance on fifty pounds the lot ? |
| 7 | Any advance on fifty pounds the lot ? |
| 8 | Any advance on fifty pounds the lot ? |
| 9 | Interest on fifty quid a fortune . |
| 10 | On 30 May the king announced that the militia was to be mobilised and might — an important innovation — be required to serve where ‘ occasion shall require ’ , i.e. if necessary outside their own counties . |
| 11 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 12 | On 30 September the hotel sent A. Creditor a cheque in settlement of the amount owing on 5 September less the agreed five per cent cash discount . |
| 13 | You are on a high-fibre diet even on 30 grams a day . |
| 14 | The population , though reduced to eating cats and dogs , fought back , however , so long as their ammunition lasted , with 16-pounder [ 7.3-kg ] and 24-pounder [ 11-kg ] cannon , continuous musket fire and frequent sorties and on 30 July an expedition led by General Kirke rammed the boom ; the following day , as the first stores were being unloaded , the siege was abandoned , having lasted 105 days . |
| 15 | Joe , given only three months to live when his lymphoma was diagnosed , was on 30 pills a day . |
| 16 | During the summer there had been reports of rising tension in the area , and on 30 August a crowd demonstrated outside Toxteth Police Station and then attacked police cars and the station itself . |
| 17 | But a new crisis then broke out in NATO which made further talks with Russia impossible : after four years of discussion about West German rearmament , on 30 August the French parliament finally rejected EDC . |
| 18 | On 30 November a Special Board Meeting was called . |
| 19 | On 30 November the Decree on Missionary Activity was voted through chapter by chapter , and then approved in its entirety . |
| 20 | The Government of Burma continue to disregard all pressure put upon them , but I am pleased that on 30 November the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Burma , in which we were co-sponsors , which called for an improvement in the human rights situation and for progress towards democratic government . |
| 21 | As dawn broke on 30 June the lines of white tape became more obvious to the two soldiers lying in the ditch , a little way up the road . |
| 22 | Death overtook events only one day after the writing of this letter , when on 30 June the king took part in a joust , that ‘ peaceful ’ demonstration of the military arts which was in fact potentially lethal . |
| 23 | On 30 June the Gaullists completed their election victory . |
| 24 | I could get two part-time jobs — forty pounds a week — you ca n't live on forty pounds a week … |
| 25 | On 22 March an armada of 45 US Navy warships , Operation Prairie Fire , complete with aircraft carriers , 200 aircraft , and nuclear submarines , appeared off the Libyan coast in the Gulf of Sidra and deliberately trailed their coats until the Libyans reacted by firing two SA-5 missiles at the American aircraft . |
| 26 | On 22 April the American Relief Administration wanted to clear a shipment to Patriarch Tikhon for him to distribute at his discretion . |
| 27 | On 22 December a vote of 6–2 favoured dissolution of the branch ( ibid . |
| 28 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 29 | On 22 February the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Peter Rees , had minuted the Prime Minister saying that the Chancellor and he had come to the conclusion that the Government should aim to save £2 billion from the social security review by 1987–8 . |
| 30 | On 22 February the Shah sent a message to the American ambassador in Morocco , Richard Parker , saying that he would now like to proceeded to the state . |