Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was by far London 's worst display and it leaves them rooted at the foot of the European Division with a 1–2 record . |
| 2 | A section of the Education Bill prevents school library services from offering their facilities to grant maintained schools after a two year period . |
| 3 | Finally , Mrs Killea turned what had looked like a hopeless contest into a 51-49 victory . |
| 4 | BYBLOS used context-dependent phonetic HMMs to produce accurate speaker-dependent continuous-speech recognition of a 1,000 word vocabulary . |
| 5 | The body of a young climber has been found in the Scottish Highlands after a three day search . |
| 6 | But the Lions had their chances and went steadily downhill from this first-Test defeat to a 4–0 whitewash . |
| 7 | A Mercedes and a Zim , bumper to bumper , blocking both lanes of the carriageway and behind them the menacing silhouette of a T-77 tank , its barrel aimed directly at the oncoming van . |
| 8 | Paul lives in a tiny bungalow , and had kept marine fish in a four foot tank for several years . |
| 9 | TERRY Murphy , ranked 138th in the world , achieved a personal best in ranking snooker tournaments by earning a place in the 32-man final phase of the £224,000 Dubai Duty Free Classic with a 5–3 victory over former world champion Joe Johnson in Blackpool . |
| 10 | They also want to question the man for the rape of a student in public toilets in St Giles in June of this year and a serious sexual assault on a fifteen year old girl in St Mary 's churchyard last year . |
| 11 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 12 | SCOTLAND paid a high price for a 33–8 victory over a rugged Western Samoan Development XV yesterday . |
| 13 | It 's one of a long list of endangered species in a 2 hour Central Documentary tonight . |
| 14 | This was a 29 year old man with a 10 year history of ulcerative colitis who had undergone restorative proctocolectomy five years previously . |
| 15 | consider specialist counselling or residential care in a 12 Step treatment centre if this is appropriate . |
| 16 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 17 | 30 per cent of unemployed claimants due a 12 month advisory interview to start a Jobplan workshop . |
| 18 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 19 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 20 | Originally these powers were largely advisory , although it could always sack the Commission and throw out the annual budget by a two-thirds majority of all its members . |
| 21 | It includes an Apple Macintosh IIsi personal computer with a 13-in colour monitor ( normally priced at £3,340 ) and Personal LaserWriter NT printer ( £1,795 ) to enable you to manage your business and present documents in a professional way . |
| 22 | MINNESOTA VIKINGS beat NFL rivals Chicago Bears 38–10 to take command of the NFC Central division with a 6–2 record . |
| 23 | To be fully implemented the agreement required confirmation by a two-thirds majority in the Senates of both the USA and the Philippines . |
| 24 | Crystal ( 1979 ) demonstrates this in his valuable analysis of a piece of personal reminiscence by a 9 year old . |
| 25 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 26 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 27 | The seller was held liable under section 13 , since the car consisted of the rear half of a 1961 car and the front half of an earlier model . |
| 28 | Ostend Ferries : P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has up to six sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Ostend , crossing time four hours ; a 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £50 to £89 depending on sailing . |
| 29 | A 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £50 to £89 , depending on sailing . |
| 30 | A 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £47 to £84 , depending on day and time of travel . |