Example sentences of "of [num] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Edinburgh District Memoir of 1861 he contributed a list of Silurian and Carboniferous fossils found in the area . |
| 2 | A BOY of 12 who begged a judge to set him free of his mother was granted his wish last night . |
| 3 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 4 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 5 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 6 | At the age of 22 she married a farmer and turned her back on showbusiness . |
| 7 | In the course of the arguments before us it was suggested that a construction of section 8 of the Act of 1969 which denies a 16- or 17-year-old girl an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , but leaves it open to her parents to consent to such treatment , could in theory lead to a case where a pregnant 16-year-old refuses an abortion , but her parents consent to her pregnancy being terminated . |
| 8 | At the age of three he received a blow on the head which left him partially deaf for the rest of his life . |
| 9 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |
| 10 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 11 | At the age of fourteen he obtained a scholarship to Stowe School which had only been in existence six years . |
| 12 | About the age of 6 he wrote a book called ‘ Ways to the City Bright by the Rev. A. M. Ramsey ’ . |
| 13 | At the age of seventeen I entered a convent . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough water polo club 's Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke are in the England squad of 16 which has a training camp at Cheltenham this weekend , at the end of which the team will be chosen for the junior ( under 20 ) international tournament in Vienna on June 26–28 . |
| 15 | Eligibility for payments is now restricted to workers under the age of 65 who have a minimum of two years ' full-time service since the age of 18 . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1855 he dismissed a Minister of Internal Affairs who as Governor of the south-western provinces had worked hard , in the 1840s , to regulate the way in which Polish landlords treated their Ukrainian serfs . |
| 17 | At the age of twenty he led a pioneer expedition to New Guinea and was wounded in the thigh by a native 's spear . |
| 18 | At the age of 98 he contributed a preface to the biography of Col De Lancey Forth , of the Imperial Camel Corps . |
| 19 | He wants to go to university , turns up to listen to Einstein , studies hard ; but his father wo n't have it , and at the age of 14 he becomes a soap boy in a barber 's and then a presser in a garment shop . |
| 20 | Three quarters of million it sounds a lot |
| 21 | At the beginning of 1989 it remained a hope awaiting fulfilment , that the incoming Bush administration would undertake that role of persuasion which previous administrations had eschewed . |
| 22 | Homer is refreshingly critical about his chosen subject and questioning about the motivation behind such works as the truly horrible ‘ The Agnew Clinic ’ of 1889 which depicts a mastectomy performed in an operating theatre crowded with doctors . |
| 23 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 24 | Mozart was clearly concerned about money , and in the summer of 1186 he offered a number of his compositions to the Prince von Fürstenberg , hoping for a fixed annual salary in return . |
| 25 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |