Example sentences of "a [num] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 2 | But while ‘ Deliverance ’ was a 70 's nightmare , exposing the soft-underbelly of the male ego and leaving the survivors weeping in their soup , ‘ City Slickers ’ is a product of the new-man 90's , where the soft underbelly is a source of pride . |
| 3 | THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED DIARY OF A 70S ' TEENAGER |
| 4 | I have a 1920 's edition of Wells , published by Collins , which tags him — The most widely read author in the world ’ . |
| 5 | It even had a 1940 's bakelite telephone which seemed to work , but the typewriter was state of the art and so , probably , was the young lady behind it . |
| 6 | The Jimmy Stewart of American comedy , with his four piece suit and his gentlemanly ways , he 's a 40 's guy in a 90 's world . |
| 7 | The second is nothing but a single-engined airliner with a 737 's rate-of-climb and rate-of-descent capabilities , able to mix with Dash 8s or ATRs along the airways . |
| 8 | Visitors to the National Fishing Heritage Centre sign on as a crew member of a 1950 's steam trawler and journey to the Arctic fishing grounds . |
| 9 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 10 | I do n't live as he does with my ‘ nan ’ in a 1930 's council flat in Tottenham . |
| 11 | It was a very different beauty from that of a 1930 's Alden ketch or a clipper-bowed Herreshof schooner so admired by the traditionalists . |
| 12 | Reproduction of a 1930 's advertisement for the Air-o-bian controllable Box kite . |
| 13 | A unique ‘ Glasgow night scene ’ with a 1930 's vintage electric tramcar is seen alongside pictorial displays showing the rise and fall of tramway systems of the years , resulting in their virtual demise in the 1950's . |
| 14 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 15 | Dressing up as a 50 's teenager is encouraged but by no means compulsory and any man dusting off his dad 's winkle pickers gets an award for merit ! |
| 16 | Out of all possible motions of the six atoms , there are therefore two of a 1 ' symmetry . |
| 17 | Does a children 's party or a loved-one 's funeral inhibit the urge to chat up new acquaintances ? |
| 18 | The Jimmy Stewart of American comedy , with his four piece suit and his gentlemanly ways , he 's a 40 's guy in a 90 's world . |
| 19 | He has now sold his Duo and drives another unusual kit car , a Vincent Hurricane which is a 60 's style open sports car . |
| 20 | The tiled hearth of a 1930s ' surround was made in a single unit , and simply laid on the structural hearth . |
| 21 | Show how the " normalize " instruction described on page 48 would be used to convert a two 's complement binary number to a fraction and exponent for use in floating-point arithmetic . |
| 22 | Like a sixties ' hippie , Preston thought irreverently , halfway to getting stoned . |