Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next morning , after a 9.15 breakfast , he discussed with Jones his ideas for a speech he had to make in a few weeks ' time at a Literary Fund dinner . |
| 2 | Atletico beat the Greeks 4–2 on aggregate after a 1–1 draw in Piraeus . |
| 3 | GPs are to be warned of the side effects of prescribing steroids to children after a nine year old girl died after taking the drugs . |
| 4 | Subjects were studied after a nine hour fast and the multilumen tube was passed orally and positioned with the oesophageal aspiration ports ( size 8 nasogastric tubes ) 35 cm from the incisors . |
| 5 | Outer Space has come to ground at Arbikfini , after a nine month gallery orbit via the Laing in Newcastle , Ferens in Hull , and Camden in London . |
| 6 | CHINA yesterday freed three dissidents — including a student , Wang Dan , who topped the most-wanted list after a 1989 crackdown on democracy protests — in a move to check Western criticism of its human rights record . |
| 7 | One of the most successful stage acts is making a controversial comeback after a fifteen year break . |
| 8 | Part of the M-forty motorway in Oxfordshire is blocked tonight after a fifteen car pile in which at least one person has died . |
| 9 | Sunderland 's last visit to Wembley in a cup competition was the 1985 Milk Cup final against Norwich City , which followed a 3–2 semi-final second-leg victory at Stamford Bridge after a 2–0 win at home . |
| 10 | Deportivo Coruna stay top of the Spanish First Division for the eighth successive week after a 2–1 home win over Sporting Gijon . |
| 11 | After a 16 hour fast , rats ( n=16/treatment group ) were sedated by an intramuscular injection of 0.1 ml Hypnorm ( fentanyl citrate 0.315 mg/ml , fluanisone 10 mg/ml ; Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd , Oxford , UK ) and 0.25 mg diazepam . |
| 12 | In healthy subjects the rise in plasma PYY was 4 ( 1 ) pM after a 530 calorie breakfast , 24 ( 5 ) after a 1200 calorie meal , and 49 ( 10 ) after ingestion of a large dinner . |
| 13 | The rise was the second largest on record , after a 142 point bounce in October 1987 when the market recovered from the Black Monday crash . |
| 14 | Leeds had a good start in the new competition , climbing to second place after a 7–1 win over Barnsley in October , in which Price got five of the goals . |
| 15 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 16 | And he was a central figure on a night of high drama in Belgium as the Lurgan team almost pulled off one of biggest Euro shocks of all time , only losing on penalties after a 1-1 extra-time draw . |
| 17 | He enjoyed the life of a country landowner , looking after a 3,000 acre estate around Wormelow . |
| 18 | In all patients and healthy controls , a 5 ml venous blood sample for plasma fatty acid measurement was drawn after a 14 hour overnight fast at the same time that full clinical assessment was performed . |
| 19 | ‘ I think the Good Lord was looking over me today , ’ said the 28-year-old Liverpudlian after a 5-3 victory over Thailand 's James Wattana . |
| 20 | The odds had turned towards the Giants on Sunday after a 6-4 win at Candlestick Park . |
| 21 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
| 22 | Eintracht Frankfurt stayed second after a 2-0 victory at Dynamo Dresden . |
| 23 | This is the face of Philip Tilson , the man police want to question after a 17 year old was allegedly subjected to a terrifying 7 hour ordeal of rape , violence and kidnap . |
| 24 | Sprengel completes its museum after a thirteen year gap |
| 25 | It happened less than two days after a fourteen year old girl from Birmingham was killed in a joyriding incident . |
| 26 | ‘ Alan George ’ was one of a batch of locos built to toil at Penrhyn Quarries in North Wales , withdrawn in 1953 after a 70 year working life . |
| 27 | Nor could doctors after a 999 crew rushed her to hospital in Bath . |
| 28 | A TOT was fighting for his life last night after a 999 ambulance went through a red light and smashed into his gran 's car . |
| 29 | A random cholesterol estimation of greater than approximately 6.5 mmol/l in a diabetic patient aged less than 60 years should be repeated after a 1 2-hour overnight fast ( and taken before morning hypoglycaemic therapy ) on two further occasions to establish the diagnosis of hyperlipidaemia . |
| 30 | The function was hosted by the agency for the US businessmen , who fly home today after a five day golfing trip organised by the Northern Ireland Partnership . |