Example sentences of "[prep] a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 2 | TOP STORES were slammed yesterday after a third of their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs . |
| 3 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 4 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 5 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 6 | Judith Weir 's The Consolations of Scholarship — a music drama in the form of a 13th to 14th-century Chinese Yuan opera . |
| 7 | In February 1895 , the Trustees of the Radcliffe Estate agreed to give an acre of land and a donation of a seventh of the cost ( not to exceed £400 ) , the Railway Company paying any costs of conveyance . |
| 8 | CLEAN beer is something of an obsession at Erdinger , which works to tolerances of a tenth of a degree of temperature , from mashing to fermentation , and is coy about revealing the details of either . |
| 9 | In 1356 , after a succession of fruitless campaigns ( though just before some spectacular successes ) , the king sought in vain from the clergy a grant of a tenth for each of the next six years ; the clergy refused to offer more than a solitary tenth because not only had some of their conditions attached to earlier grants been ignored but also they themselves were too impoverished by war levies of all kinds to afford greater liberality . |
| 10 | In 1290 , however , having just expelled the Jews , Edward elicited a ready grant of a tenth from both provinces . |
| 11 | What is there in this to evoke the shades of a third of a million dead Frenchmen ? |
| 12 | This will enable Benzina , the republic and the federal governments to decide terms for the sale of a third of the Benzina petrol stations to the major oil companies . |
| 13 | Certainly for his sacking of a third of his colleagues in the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in July 1962 . |
| 14 | Croatia lost control of a third of its territory . |
| 15 | When a whale drinks a litre of sea water , it is able to concentrate the salt into two thirds of litre of urine — which means it can quench its thirst with a net gain of a third of a litre of fresh water . |
| 16 | García had rejected the verdict of a year-long investigation by a special congressional commission which accused him of authorizing the placing of a third of Central Bank reserves ( US$270,000,000 ) into the Panamanian branch of the now discredited Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see p. 38355 ) in return for US$3,000,000 in bribes . |
| 17 | The health of a third of the population of England is at risk from air pollution , according to a Greenpeace study , with children and old people particularly vulnerable . |
| 18 | A councillor who 's facing a legal bill of a third of a million pounds after a failed libel case has lodged an appeal against having to pay . |
| 19 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 20 | Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) . |
| 21 | A coastguard vessel , fighting huge seas and high winds , picked up two empty life rafts and the wreckage of a third near the area where the ships ran into trouble . |
| 22 | The Hong Kong government guesses that what would follow is a fall of 5–7% in the colony 's total trade , and of a third in its rate of GDP growth . |
| 23 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 24 | Population dispersal followed the Greater London model : town expansion and the building of three new towns ( East Kilbride , Cumbernauld and Bishopton ) , and the possibility of a fourth at Houston , and a green belt covering the agricultural land in the middle and lower Clyde basins . |
| 25 | On 1 February of the following year , therefore , the Great Council granted the king an aid of a fifteenth of all moveables , and in return the Charter of the Forest was re-issued . |
| 26 | Something like a third of the increase has been taken up in higher prices , with the prices of some capital goods , such as houses , actually doubling . |
| 27 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 28 | Meat consumption had increased by something like a third between 1870 and 1890 , and working-class people had begun to eat fruit , which had previously been a luxury . |
| 29 | But of course since that boom in the sixties we 've had the seventies ' economic depression , uncertainty about the future , the problem of the bomb , changed family attitudes , better contraception erm a great drop , and in fact a population a birth fall rather , of something like a third between nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty seven . |
| 30 | This is the reason for the invention of the electron microscope which uses electrons with a wave-length of something like a twenty-fifth of an Ångström instead of light with a wave-length of about four thousand Ångströms . |