Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When only eighteen he became a fellow of Exeter College in 1826 , two years before obtaining first-class honours in classics . |
| 2 | Dated at approximately 1430 it concerns a writ , ‘ Commission ad computa collectorem denorionum pro clausura villae ’ , which may be translated as a ‘ Commission for the hearing of the accounts of the collectors of money for the walling of a town ’ . |
| 3 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 4 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed . |
| 6 | When I was about twelve I had a governess called Miss Mayhew . |
| 7 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 8 | Around 1825 he took a post in Carlisle as manager of a small ironworks , and in 1832 he was appointed mill manager for Losh , Wilson , & Bell 's Walker Ironworks near Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 9 | Around 1745 she published A Letter to Dr. Pitt , comically chiding a neighbour for the state of a wall between their properties . |
| 10 | ‘ But when I was maybe eighteen I had a stereo Sony machine and was doing sound on sound recording . |