Example sentences of "[num] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’ |
| 2 | The aim is to stabilise CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 , with a tax equivalent to $10 on a barrel of oil , beginning with an increase of $3 in 1993 and then a further $1 a year until 2000 . |
| 3 | Easington 's MP from 1970–1987 and now a ‘ full time ’ member of the Lords , he moved house solely because of travelling problems . |
| 4 | Then on the fourth month the birds should be in full production of fours , threes and maybe a few twos . |
| 5 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 6 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 7 | The maize or Indian corn is what you may well be most conscious of here , a crop introduced into the western Pyrenees in the 1600s and long a staple there , occupying now nearly half the cultivated space . |
| 8 | He missed only two fixtures in 1990–91 and obviously a grand future lies ahead of him . |
| 9 | , Thomas ( fl. 1589–1638 ) , land surveyor , was certainly practising by 1589 and possibly a year or two earlier . |
| 10 | The seed planted in the good soil produced thirty , sixty and even a hundred times the original sowing . |
| 11 | They managed to raise three thousand and now a businessman , who does n't want to be named , has stepped in and paid the rest . |
| 12 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 13 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
| 14 | Thank you bowlers , six for twenty-five and then a slight contrast , one for a hundred and fifty , but he bowled a great many overs , that 's er , he 's proving a very useful addition to the the England side and he 's being used erm very sensibly by Gooch . |
| 15 | The ARP warden , out of work since 1930 and now a man of standing with his steel helmet , army-style respirator and dangling whistle , banged on the door of number five pleading through the letterbox with its occupant . |
| 16 | The opponents have a confident sounding auction to a six diamond contract , during which South showed at least a five and probably a six card diamond suit . |
| 17 | After her success with Kate Moss , Sarah now hopes to work the same magic with Kate 's brother Nick , who is 16 and still a schoolboy in Croydon . |
| 18 | On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor . |
| 19 | To swim a distance of 3.1 kilometres in five hours , with a solid roof and no air space above you , visibility often zero and only a thin nylon line to follow , must be most people 's idea of the worst dive in the world … |
| 20 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 21 | Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two . |
| 22 | We were taken out one by one and always a soldier stood behind , the barrel of his gun shoved between the prisoner 's shoulder blades . |
| 23 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |
| 24 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 25 | Add a few other programs and a game or two and even a 100Mb drive is starting to look a little small . |
| 26 | Q I have two little daughters , aged two and almost a year . |
| 27 | In this state the polymer exhibits several unique properties which are dealt with in chapter 14 and only a brief description of the chain behaviour in this region is given here . |
| 28 | Well the tower is er I 'm not quite sure about the exact height of it it 's I think it 's a hundred and over a hundred and fifty feet high er the to the top of the dome I think it 's a hundred and fifty three feet high to the top of the dome . |
| 29 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 30 | In 1987 , the Gunners won the League Cup , followed by the Championship in 1989 and then a second title in 1991 . |