Example sentences of "a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 2 | Aye going going flat out you know they 're er heavy rains the machines are going flat out er at the s one night I I sat I sat er all night and ne nearly part of next day at side of one of governors , to make sure it did n't shift no more than a about a sixteenth of an inch . |
| 3 | Please reserve for me a sixteenth of a page space in the August issue of Folk Roots . |
| 4 | Then the ledge below , the rock edge ripping his hands , and his shoulders almost jerked out of their sockets as he fought his boots flat for a hundredth of a second against the cliff face . |
| 5 | It takes a hundredth of a second |
| 6 | The fastest man in Europe was the Russian Viktor Bryzgin , a hundredth of a second faster than Linford . |
| 7 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 8 | Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light . |
| 9 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 10 | As photographers know , a great deal can happen in periods of time as long as a hundredth of a second . |
| 11 | Cyberscience says that reports can often be produced in a hundredth of the time that it takes with Cobol . |
| 12 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |
| 13 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 14 | you that you ca n't say , Well one centimetre is a hundredth of a metre so |
| 15 | one cubic centimetre 's going to be a hundredth of a cubic metre . |
| 16 | Each Dobson unit is a hundredth of a millimetre and refers to the thickness of the stratospheric ozone layer that would result if it were brought to sea level pressure and temperature . |
| 17 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 18 | They had your hundred a hundredth of a mile say , let's say it 's erm let's say it was a tenth of a mile . |
| 19 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 20 | And when you get to international level , if you give away a hundredth of a second on the start , that 's equivalent to four hundredths at the bottom on a perfect run . |
| 21 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 22 | The first print run of 6,000 sold out and a second of 4,000 is moving quickly . |
| 23 | A BamHI + PstI digest gave a single band of 4.8 kb with the ble specific probe , consistent with the restriction map of the construct ( Fig. 1B ) , and generated 2 novel tubulin specific bands ; the 4.8 kb band and a second of 5.6 kb , which represents the remaining integrated sequences . |
| 24 | Hill , Bangor 's quiet , consistent midfielder went oh so close to scoring a second for Bangor — a goal which would have put the Seasiders through . |
| 25 | And then Danny McCann could have scored a second for Fairmile in the dying moments , but he shot over from a good position . |
| 26 | Cliss scored a second in the 55th minute and two goals in the following ten minutes from Steve Hudson put the game well beyond Harwich . |
| 27 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 28 | A 60th at full bore is a bit dicey with a 500mm lens hand held in a stagnant bog . |
| 29 | It is a late-third to mid-fourth century group and none of the vessels need have belonged to the second half of the fourth century . |
| 30 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |