Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [num] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weight for weight , the tensile strength of wood is equivalent to that of a 300,000 p.s.i . |
| 2 | It 's not much for a hundred quid is it ? |
| 3 | Indeed , I am not absolutely sure that it has not been proved that in terms of pure cost-effectiveness a space such as a 4 cm double is the best you can buy — the only trouble is that you need an awful lot of them . |
| 4 | So that the majority of people will be subject to a forty percent deduction on their personal benefit and their personal rate . |
| 5 | The most spectacular mock accident was in 1984 , when a nuclear flask was virtually undamaged after a 100 mph rail crash . |
| 6 | The hybridization reactions were performed with 250 ng HIV-1 pHIVCG8.6 RNA ( pos. 8600–9227 with a 22 nt poly(A) tail ) in buffer containing 25 mM Tris-Cl ( pH 7.0 ) , 25 mM NaCl , 7 mM dithiothreitol , 100 mM MgCl 2 , 10 mM ZnCl 2 and 8 units of RNAsin in the absence or presence of NCp7 during 15 min at 37°C . |
| 7 | In The Netherlands , existing dikes and other protection works will have to be raised and reinforced at a cost of US $3.1–8.8 billion for a 70–200 cm sea-level rise ( Barbier , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | The instructions tell you not to remove the growing tip until the tree has reached the final size you require , do I presume I 'm stuck with a 2½ ft tall tree ? |
| 9 | Since the latter are available for a 5 km raster the registration data are assigned to these grid squares using the OS grid reference . |
| 10 | Twelve nine ninety nine for a twelve tog . |
| 11 | The Odeillo solar furnace in the Pyrenees achieves a temperature of 4,000 degrees Centigrade while larger furnaces are being developed , again at Odeillo and in Sicily , capable of a 1 MW capacity . |
| 12 | Three-quarters of a million people came there every day to work . |
| 13 | A combination of population shifts ( about three-quarters of a million people move house every year in Britain ) , the disparity among constituency electorates recommended by the commissioners in favor of other criteria ( maintaining local government boundaries and the like ) , the lapse of time between reviews , ad the disparity in the number of seats allocated to the different countries in the United Kingdom has meant that there are often marked differences among the sizes of electorates . |
| 14 | We had another excellent year in nineteen eighty nine with a twenty percent increase in earnings per share and a nineteen percent increase in dividends per share . |
| 15 | The watercolour paper is acid-free , available in a 140 lb weight , and comes in four different shades : oatmeal , eggshell , cream and grey . |
| 16 | The deep channel is rarely more than 10 ft wide in a 90 ft flow ; this , combined with the speed of the flow and the length , make all racks grade I/II . |
| 17 | Eight hundred to a thousand people will live in a dense area and are subject to the vagaries of government and landlords . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the Ayodhya issue continued to cause serious unrest during late 1990 , with close to a thousand people being killed in communal violence across the country . |
| 19 | The dead volume of outlet tubing ( 25 L ) was equivalent to a 10 min delay in sampling at this flow rate . |