Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a 128 Sports , ’ he admits , ‘ which proudly announced its 70 hp on a flash down the side . |
| 3 | Among more modern works he owned Garrick 's copy of Drayton 's Polyolbion , a 1550 Piers Plowman , and the first edition of the works of Taylor , the Water Poet . |
| 4 | Boat leaves Dublin and sails one hundred a fifty kilometres and the variant is O point five . |
| 5 | However , turning turning to Selby 's demand led approach which I would call it , and I think that is erm how they themselves in fact describe it , they have set a level of two hundred and two hundred to two hundred a fifty hectares based on demand , and as I understand it there is no assessment of job need or job demand to back that requirement . |
| 6 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 7 | ‘ We have experienced a 180 degrees turn in our mentality , ’ says Colombia 's trade minister , Juan Manuel Santos . |
| 8 | In Europe the company operating the Astra satellite will use digital compression technology to offer a 180 channels per home option . |
| 9 | I won my race into a 1.5 metres per second wind . |
| 10 | In answer to one question , Duncan MacIndeor , a 75 years old roadman from Kilmeny said , " I was a farmer at Airidh-Ghuairidh for 23 years . |
| 11 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 12 | Shareholders are offered a one-for-three rights issue at 110p to raise £152million , but Corporate Partners will take up any shares not subscribed to . |
| 13 | Avesco Plc yesterday announced plans to demerge its VideoLogic Ltd multimedia subsidiary , which has joint venture agreements with IBM Corp : it says that Videologic 's turnover for the year that ends today will be not less than £10.4m , which is an increase of 44% over last year : Avesco also plans to raise £12.1m net of expenses in a one-for-three rights issue at 63 pence ; the news put 12 pence on the share price , which reached 97p . |
| 14 | THE advertising and marketing services group , Gold Greenlees Trott , is calling on shareholders for £14.7 million in a one-for-three rights issue aimed at providing elbow-room for more acquisitions . |
| 15 | Who , for instance , would have the courage to return a 120 days Note , requesting replacement with one for 60 days ? |
| 16 | Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps … |
| 17 | For example , a Ninety cylinder head will fit , say , a 1972 SIII , but not vice versa . |
| 18 | No , I wa I was , er er I I was thinking anyway , that it was n't exactly like that , it 's more like a Forty Minutes type thing . |
| 19 | That compares with a forty pounds fixed penalty fine . |
| 20 | The day came , and with it a forty days , forty nights style rainstorm . |
| 21 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 22 | he s won us a 2 championships and a 4th place in 4 years . |
| 23 | Taking the out-of-plane dipole arrows together , we obtain b 1 and a 2 modes . |
| 24 | The columns were part of an octastyle portico , each 48 feet high and standing on a 22 feet podium . |
| 25 | The Iranian Oil Ministry was reported in late October to have adopted an aggressive policy on crude oil production and prices after rejecting a 3,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) quota which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had sought to impose on Iran at its meeting in September [ see p. 39120 ] ; the Middle East Economic Digest on Oct. 30 quoted the Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh , as saying that Iranian output during October would average 3,800,000 bpd , but as denying that Iran was seeking to destabilize the international market . |
| 26 | She completed a hat-trick with a 12 lengths victory over previous scorer Milleone at Nottingham last month and should prove too sharp for her rivals in the Northern Junior Hurdle . |
| 27 | As an example , every three months the buyer gives a 12 months forward forecast . |
| 28 | All had to go back to Felling , in the UK , where relabelling work started over Christmas and continued well into January in a 700 man-hours effort . |
| 29 | The receiver combines a 30 watts per channel amplifier with a 10-station AM/FM tuner . |
| 30 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |