Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are others , however , where even after centuries of use this matching is not obviously satisfactory , for example violin playing would seem to be posturally a disaster , but there may be some subtle aids to very precise control of the sound generated in having the source of sound very close to the ear and perhaps some vibration transmission by the direct contact of this instrument and the jawbone . |
| 2 | A Cold Brayfield husbandman , William Bateman , who was assessed at 10s. , left his wife ‘ half my crop of 5 acres of corn this year [ 1526 ] growing on the ground ’ . |
| 3 | It was the only way she could express it , remembering Justinette 's assertions of how she had experienced altered states of consciousness this way . |
| 4 | One is that Mr Lawson has not yet succeeded in getting a handle on domestic demand , and the signs of success this summer were misleading . |
| 5 | I am hoping that you will observe that I have fetched in enough buckets of coal this afternoon to spare you having to carry them in tomorrow . |
| 6 | As criterion referencing is concerned with descriptions of performance this exercise may give an indication about how some criteria might be expressed . |
| 7 | Germany expects to collect 200,000 tonnes of plastic this year ; it has capacity to reprocess at most 60,000 tonnes . |
| 8 | Sour note economic recession has said it would produce only 4.2 million tonnes of sugar this year , one of the lowest harvests in recent history . |
| 9 | Belarus has persuaded Moscow to sell it 16 million tonnes of oil this year — almost as much as the 20 million tonnes Russia will supply to Ukraine , whose economy and energy needs are much bigger . |
| 10 | And that is for a popular tourist destination airfield , squeezed incredibly between mountain cliff faces in one of the most utterly spectacular pieces of scenery this world has to offer ! |
| 11 | After many millions of years of deliberation this machine finally delivers its verdict : the answer is forty-two . |
| 12 | Dr Ingmar Lindquist is the new Director of the Church of Finland 's Information Centre which celebrates 25 years of existence this year . |
| 13 | For example the Queen celebrates 40 years of rule this year . |
| 14 | At seven , the child will learn this ; at eight the child will learn that ; by nine years of age this information will be assimilated … but we must not teach this , or this , or this . |
| 15 | To the psychologist searching for the determinants of personality this sort of outcome is disappointing ; to the parent , on the other hand , it should be good news . |
| 16 | With panels of glass this size in such a small room bound to be problems . |
| 17 | WE are looking for some one-cap wonders of soccer this week with a query that wins £25 for Mr F. Stillwell of Basingstoke . |
| 18 | I am slowly getting to grips with the laptop , but sadly , on 13th , lost not only the biggest filling in my teeth but also twenty pages of type this size on paper this size . |
| 19 | Bulmers will be making around 40 million gallons of cider this year — half Britain 's total production . |
| 20 | The most quantitatively significant development in terms of content this century has not been rehabilitation but deterrence ( through the massive expansion in the use of the fine , as we saw in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 21 | At low levels of excitation this structure , outlined in Fig. 1 , will obviously behave as if it were an inefficient transformer . |
| 22 | From sample surveys of some ten villages in different regions of China and at different levels of income this project will map out differences in the scope and ranges of resources which rural householders in China have had at their disposal in the last few years . |
| 23 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 24 | In the final stages of decomposition this once-living ( organic ) matter , the third component , becomes jelly-like and is then , and correctly not until then , called ‘ humus ’ . |
| 25 | Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years . |
| 26 | You 've already stolen more than 500 kilos of xarkon this week . ’ |
| 27 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 28 | You do n't want very much the milkman left us two pints of milk this morning help me . |
| 29 | The company calls the project its Infostructure Network , and it will involve it laying 7,000 miles of fibre this year alone , which it sees being used for home shopping services , software delivery , movie offerings and interactive educational programming as well as up to 500 television channels . |
| 30 | Catching the rays of sunshine this variety lights up the shrub border to prolong the last few days of autumn . |