Example sentences of "[num] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guided by an apparent recognition of the obligations of power toward the people , Conservatives could show evidence after 1867 of a consistent record of legislative reform to improve working-class conditions . |
| 2 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 3 | Just my 1/100 of a punt worth . |
| 4 | The brains of active control systems are computers that respond within hundredths of a second to the vibrations of an earthquake . |
| 5 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |
| 6 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 7 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 8 | Skaardal , well recovered from an ankle problem bothering him at Val d'Isere , was 43 hundredths of a second behind Heinzer and Lasse Arnesen , eighth the previous weekend , 52 hundredths from 19th start number . |
| 9 | The two more able children had counting rates of 11 and 13 hundredths of a second for each step respectively . |
| 10 | For the less able children this increased to 39 and 51 hundredths of a second . |
| 11 | Longer wavelengths are measured in hundredths of a metre ( centimetre , cm ) , metres ( m ) or in thousands of metres ( kilometre , km ) . |
| 12 | The number in brackets is the number of " ticks " ( one hundredths of a second ) which BBCBASIC(Z80) will wait for a key to be pressed . |
| 13 | Annadale continued their domination of the men 's 1500m with Jim Campbell and Dermot Donnelly who fought out a close finish with Campbell just gaining the verdict by six hundredths of a second in three minutes 47.37 . |
| 14 | Jackson , who earned a total of £40,000 , said : ‘ I was pedestrian away from the blocks and that cost me vital hundredths of a second . |
| 15 | The crowd at the Cleveland County Stadium rose to salute Matthew 's efforts but she finished in 10 mins 20.4 secs , four hundredths of a second outside the qualifying time . |
| 16 | The Seoul Olympian 's time of 56.5 seconds was six hundredths of a second inside the nine-year-old League record . |
| 17 | And it 's five sixteenths of an inch thick by ordinary buttering and half an inch thick for toast . |
| 18 | The poet receives no replies : the Sonnets are one-half of a correspondence , as they represent one-half of a relationship . |
| 19 | The poet receives no replies : the Sonnets are one-half of a correspondence , as they represent one-half of a relationship . |
| 20 | Note that the sheet and the fields in the upper inset of Figure 9.2 correspond to one-half of a sidereal axial period of Jupiter different from the situation in the main body of the Figure . |
| 21 | One of the simplest and most reliable is Alizarin red S. Many carbonate workers routinely acid etch one-half of a thin section and stain it in acidified Alizarin red S solution before covering . |
| 22 | 12 of a series The art business COPYRIGHT |
| 23 | The statement followed the outbreak on Sept. 12 of a fresh hunger strike by six prisoners at different prisons . |
| 24 | Following an ETA truce between Jan. 8 and April 7 , 1989 , which ended after the breakdown of peace talks in Algiers [ see pp. 36627-28 ] , violence recommenced with the murder on April 12 of a Civil Guard . |
| 25 | The government had similarly blamed " armed foreign forces " for clashes in the south-west of Djibouti on Oct. 20-23 , in which , according to the Defence Ministry , the army had killed 12 of a group of 400-500 men wearing Ethiopian uniforms who had made an incursion into the Dikhil region , bordering Ethiopia . |
| 26 | On Oct. 30 , the nuclear reactor at Kozloduy was reported to be working at half-capacity and there were reports on Nov. 12 of a further technical failure at the plant , which had been partially closed in September for safety reasons [ see pp. 38448-49 ] . |
| 27 | However , the publication in 1903 of a Motu Proprio by Pope Pius X provided official recognition of its importance . |
| 28 | The same increasing central control and rationalization can be seen also in the introduction in 1720 of a regular tariff for the purchase of commissions ; in the 1750s of the custom of numbering regiments rather than referring to them by their colonel 's name ; and in 1792 of a common system of drill , based on that of Prussia , for the whole army . |
| 29 | A protracted final " make or break " negotiating session began in Luxembourg on Oct. 22 and ended in the early morning of Oct. 23 with the conclusion of an agreement between the seven-member European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) and the 12-member European Communities ( EC ) on the creation from January 1993 of a common European Economic Area ( EEA ) , the world 's largest common market embracing 380 million people . |
| 30 | The bilateral agreement , the first under the US " open skies " initiative , came as the European Communities ( EC ) prepared for the implementation in 1993 of a common European aviation policy requiring EC members to negotiate as a block . |