Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 2 | And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state . |
| 3 | After an interval of 54 years the World Federation of Hungarians held its third congress in Budapest on Aug. 19-21 . |
| 4 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 5 | Once they reach an age of 4–5 years the goldfish will often start to lose their colouration and gradually become paler . |
| 6 | On 4th March 1985 , the Fayed brothers made an offer of four pounds a share for House of Fraser . |
| 7 | Pupils in opted-out schools are funded at an average of four time the level of LEA pupils . |
| 8 | The pilot results were promising and showed that the POI systems were used an average of eight times an hour . |
| 9 | But we do spend an average of eight hours every day of our lives with our mouths and noses pressed against pillows full of the mite dung … ‘ |
| 10 | The Manila stockmarket is at an all-time high ; yet electricity power-cuts in the country last an average of eight hours a day . |
| 11 | While in 1971 MPs spent an average of 11 hours a week on constituency duties , the average in 1982 was 16 hours . |
| 12 | An average of 35,000 people a night attended Maine Road ; only 22,000 a night attended Earls Court — a third less . |
| 13 | If each employee works an average of 1,100 hours every year , taking sick leave and holidays into consideration , it will take three employees , costing some £100,000 between them , to perform this task alone . |
| 14 | The wave stood 5ft high in places , travelled at an average of 10 miles an hour and carried the surfers about 8 miles . |
| 15 | During the first three years , very little time was spent on such whole-school issues as management and curriculum leadership , but in 1988 an apparent change of priorities led to a dramatic increase in provision in this area from an average of 102 teacher-days a year to a somewhat startling 1,280 . |
| 16 | The cameras snapped an average of one rhino every five days . |
| 17 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 18 | By the autumn of 1985 , they were playing an average of two concerts a week . |
| 19 | Deep snow-drifts and sheet ice slowed down the party 's progress , and beyond Bar-le-Duc it was reduced to an average of two miles an hour , on running into the chaotic rear of the Verdun army . |
| 20 | There was an average of two deaths a week , of which 517 could have been prevented . |
| 21 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |
| 22 | Gate receipts ( using an average of 13 quid a seat ) , assuming 40K crowds = 1/2 million quid PER MATCH . |
| 23 | The ITA was given tight control over the number , duration , placing and content of TV ads , which for most of the period were limited to an average of six minutes an hour . |
| 24 | Jessica had been a dental nurse before they 'd married and now she was a dental nurse again , for an average of six hours a week on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons . |
| 25 | The 500 citizens of Giverny , which already receives an average of 570,000 visitors a year attracted by the Maison Monet , are less than enthusiastic about the new museum . |
| 26 | As has been evident from the previous two matches , the European team will bring the stronger hitters in the match , being an average of nine yards a man longer off the tee and hitting one green in regulation more per round . |
| 27 | As Wigglesworth suggested , only perinatal deaths due to asphyxia in labour and immaturity directly reflect the effectiveness of medical care , and these categories accounted for only 16% and 23% of perinatal deaths , respectively , in this series — an average of 46 deaths a year from an average of over 11000 births occurring in several hospitals . |
| 28 | By 1960 the American family was throwing away an average of 750 cans a year . |
| 29 | The Bosphorus , a winding 30-kilometre waterway which passes through Istanbul , a city of 10 million people , carries an average of 140 ships a day . |
| 30 | Mick Quinn does n't have to say too much in his own defence apart from pointing to an average of 20 goals a season for 13 years , and 13 in 10 starts since August . |