Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few Spanish statesmen could recognize that America was irretrievably lost ; it is only after 1820 that a handful of liberals talked of the ‘ inevitability ’ of the fruit falling from the tree . |
| 2 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
| 3 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
| 4 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 5 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
| 6 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 7 | There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice . |
| 8 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
| 9 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |
| 10 | I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000 . |
| 11 | I 'm 32 and have two children from a first marriage — a daughter of 10 and a son of 13 . |
| 12 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 13 | The deposition of the king was followed by a reversal of the forfeitures of 1322 and an annulment of the grants that the victors of Boroughbridge had made to themselves and their supporters . |
| 14 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |
| 15 | Intensive Group Courses : They are offered throughout the year for executives and for serious students of all professions and institutions of learning , who enjoy the challenge of quick progress in a small group of an average of 5 and a maximum of 7 participants . |
| 16 | He considered that a multiplier of 12 was substantially too high for the ordinary case of a man dying at age 53 , leaving a widow of 52 and a child of 18 . |
| 17 | This is said to represent an increase in real terms of 5 per cent , but this assumes an inflation rate of 5.75 per cent by the fourth quarter of 1990/91 and a rate of 3 per cent in 1992/93 . |
| 18 | A young aspirant conductor , F.Charles Adler , and instrumentalists of the calibre of Carl Fuchs of the Manchester College of Music , rehearsed for Christmas Eve an orchestra of 25 and a chorus of 100 the Messiah ( ‘ realised ’ by feverish copyists , unable to arrange the score for male voices . |
| 19 | Fianna Fail then had a PV of 44.1 and a PS of 48.8 . |
| 20 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 21 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 22 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 23 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 24 | They had two children , a girl of five and a boy of two , and one of my first jobs was to take the little girl to school . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , already 16 French were dead , including a child of five and a man of 76 . |
| 26 | On July 16 seven asylum seekers in the embassy seized the original group of five and a number of Czechoslovak diplomats , threatening to blow the embassy up if their demand to leave Cuba was not met . |
| 27 | Then followed the crash of 1987 and a period of lacklustre performance . |
| 28 | The problem was how to assess effort or commitment or end result of one or a series of lessons like discussions or role play or simulations ? |
| 29 | You can get a pension if you are a man of 65 or a woman of 60 , provided you have paid ( or been credited with ) sufficient national insurance contributions . |
| 30 | Their findings were summed up in the feasibility study published in February 1986 , which predicted a minimum weekly sale of 800,000 and a maximum of 1.5 million . |