Example sentences of "a [num] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract comprises a 4.5 kilometre extension of the M74 in Glasgow . |
| 2 | The business operates 133 vehicles including 80 bulk tippers from a 4.5 acre site with an in-house maintenance/repair facility . |
| 3 | The management intend he will remain with the party , though obviously the lengthy bus journey to Nadi yesterday as the prelude to a three-and-a-half hour flight to Sydney today , could have a detrimental effect . |
| 4 | Fears that the hard-hitting Hamsphire batsman is facing a three-and-a-half week lay-off with a cracked toe after a pre-tour training accident at Lilleshall last week have been allayed . |
| 5 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 6 | I mean , and I 'd worked in one in Oldham and the difference between the one that was a fifty shilling tailors in Oldham and |
| 7 | The third party claims have lessened with the retreat from the Convention for the Regulation of the Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities , and the acceptance by the parties at Madrid in 1991 of a fifty year ban on activities relating to mineral resources other than scientific research . |
| 8 | Today 's announcment ends a fifty year association between Upper Heyford and the American Airforce . |
| 9 | Emergency services were called to the M four when a fifty kilogram container of calcium hypochloride split open during peak hour traffic . |
| 10 | They but they do n't know what caused that fire er they reckon it was an electrical fault from the generator that er supplied the it was a s a fifty watt bulb in each room and there was mainly for the radio . |
| 11 | across in swindon yesterday eight hundred of the country 's fittest athletes were competing in one of the summer 's toughest events … the two twenty triathlon … a fifty mile race of endurance |
| 12 | And a fifty pound fee for the privilege of taking photographs of him was hardly likely to win him friends among the assembled media . |
| 13 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |
| 14 | What does upset Northampton is the impending change of rule — a 180 day qualification for overseas players from Sept 1 — which effectively will prevent Shelford from playing for them next season . |
| 15 | HP 's Larry Lytle , loaned to the Open Software Foundation back at its inception to handle recruiting , has made a 180 degree turn after a stint at Netwise as strategic relations director where he had philosophical differences with OSf : He 's now gone to Unix System Labs as director of corporate communications . |
| 16 | Washington 's policy of never negotiating with terrorists suffered a 180 degree change on the way to Manila . |
| 17 | Former Argentine captain Diego Maradona scored his second goal for Sevilla with a 20th-minute penalty in a 32 home win over Rayo Vallecano . |
| 18 | Cleo Communications , Ann Arbor , Michigan , is offering a 32 user version of SCO 's uniPath SNA-3270 mainframe connectivity package plus interface board for $1,300 : however , in an attempt to persuade users to move to its own 3270 emulation package — 3270Linkix — the company is offering 32 user evaluation package , with board and documentation , for $700 . |
| 19 | The terms are 225p cash a share — 20 times brokers ' 1992 earnings forecasts — but five of Worcester 's top managers , including chairman Cecil Duckworth , are exchanging most of their holdings for a 32 p.c. stake in the new Bosch subsidiary that will own the business . |
| 20 | For example , one of the things I 've been doing today is submitting titles for Waterstones ’ summer reading promotion ; they are sponsoring a 32 page supplement in Elle , and are doing a run-on . |
| 21 | According to the newspaper La Nacion , Delia Adela Guevara de Palazzo missed becoming the first victim of space debris by 2 metres when a 1.5 kilogram fragment of the space station landed in her back garden . |
| 22 | The new statutes could only be changed by a two-thirds majority vote of the new Congress . |
| 23 | It envisaged that the head of state ( also C.-in-C. of the armed forces ) would be elected by parliament , and could be removed by a two-thirds majority vote of the parliament . |
| 24 | Damon 's first car race was against Gareth Hunt and Geoff Hurst in a 1980 celebrity event at Brands Hatch . |
| 25 | Tony Underwood raced in for a 70 metre try in Leicester 's 30-14 win at London Irish . |
| 26 | The illustration shows a 70 centilitre bottle of Scotch Whisky selling at £10.80 , of which the Government takes 66% in tax |
| 27 | B & A Scaffolding beat Lion Hotel ( Rob Cowley ) 2-1 at Hull while an 84th minute goal from Billy Roberts clinched a 1-0 home success for Eagle-Knowsley against East Bowling Unity . |
| 28 | Birchwood Town won 2-1 at home against East Leigh in division two , third-placed Kingsway won 6-3 against Winwick and Norland collected their first points of the season with a 1-0 home win against Wood Albion . |
| 29 | Even so , it 's perfectly possible — nay easy — to open a 24 bit image into a 256 colour environment under Windows ( assuming your graphics card supports it — and most do ) , or , better yet , a 16 bit , 32,000 colour environment , and edit it there . |
| 30 | When you bear in mind that a 256 colour image at 1024 by 768 pixels is 768K in size then it is not surprising that ordinary monitor controller cards simply can not redraw the screen image with any speed . |