Example sentences of "that a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been a mathematician in the years gone by , I was amazed at the audacity of the polling companies to state that a sample of 1,000 voters was representative plus or minus three percent of a total electorate of some 43½ million . |
| 2 | I estimated that a sample of one in 12 night visits performed by general practitioners in Berkshire in the year beginning 1 July 1991 would provide details of about 2000 visits . |
| 3 | The problem then arises that a sample of such size , or indeed any large plot , will mask any microtopographical diversity in the forest and thus any local species assemblages under particular microenvironmental conditions . |
| 4 | As recently as fifty years ago Hitler ordered that a statue of Sir Francis Drake at Offenburg be razed to the ground because he was holding a potato plant . |
| 5 | It was here , under a straggle of dwarf oaks and rowans that a troupe of elderly walkers had decided to halt for their feed . |
| 6 | STC IDEC LIMITED has an open management style and , as a result , most employees were aware that a consolidation of activities was going to take place but that there were no suitable local premises which the company could take over . |
| 7 | England were due to meet Wales in the final match of the round robin series today knowing that a share of the honours would give them the crown . |
| 8 | In order to preserve modularity , this power could not , of course , extend to repairing the modules themselves , for that is just the sort of tinkering that a principle of modularity would rule out . |
| 9 | ‘ Two years ago the Government ruled that a budget of £22.3m was reasonable for this council , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Nuadu thought that a glitter of amusement showed from within the folds of the hood . |
| 11 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 12 | This commitment to materialism means that a couple of standard dualist objections must be faced . |
| 13 | If the girls do not appear to have an even average awareness of culture — a friend said that a couple of years ago Zsuzsa had never heard of |
| 14 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 15 | I made sure that a couple of books were left at home so that there was more room . |
| 16 | Interested readers will be aware that a couple of years ago , two new recordings of the 1915 version of El Amor brujo were released , one from Virgin with Aquarius ( which I 've not heard ) , the other from Nuova Era with the Carmé Ensemble . |
| 17 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a real emotional roller coaster , and I suspect that a couple of days ahead I will be totally drained . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here . |
| 20 | It 's just that a couple of ideas occurred to me , one of which will have occurred to you and one which you probably do n't know about . |
| 21 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 22 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 23 | ‘ Just that a couple of guys are taking the sound system out through the window . ’ |
| 24 | Removing the worry of finding other jobs should make it easier for the players to focus on their cricket and there is also the hope that a couple of the kids to benefit from having our lads coaching them in the winter will develop into Notts players of the future . ’ |
| 25 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 26 | We think that a couple of buy-outs will be allowed to succeed as a form of window dressing . |
| 27 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 28 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 29 | ‘ And you need n't think that a couple of glasses of champagne will make any difference . |
| 30 | ‘ Such has been their success that a couple of the staff are taking evening classes to extend and improve their skills at cake decorating , ’ she added . |