Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 2 | The second , third , and fourth measurement ( on separate days ) started at 45 minutes , four hours , and eight hours respectively after a single subcutaneous injection of 100 µg octreotide ( Sandostatin , Sandoz AG , Basel , Switzerland ) . |
| 3 | This project will investigate all 74 cases together with a series of long term detention case under the 1964 Act . |
| 4 | The domestic programme kicked off in December and has so far rounded up 32 resellers out of a desired 50 with access to key accounts , Unix expertise and a vertical orientation . |
| 5 | ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones . |
| 6 | He is among at least 35,000 Scots now without a home . |
| 7 | Forest clawed their way level 12 minutes later with a Clough penalty but failed to take all three points as opportunities were squandered . |
| 8 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 9 | Strangely enough Mr Fallon brought up exactly the same example just 12 hours later at a debate in Polam Hall . |
| 10 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 11 | Mr Hall looked flushed and glassy eyed when the event started 30 minutes late after a sumptuous dinner . |
| 12 | THE world teetered on the brink of a new Cold War for 30 minutes yesterday after an astonishing speech by Russia 's Foreign Minister . |
| 13 | In 1900 the two senior deacons were appointed to look into three cases of ‘ non attendance to the table ’ and reported back that there were twenty-one cases out of a membership of 109 . |
| 14 | But in an average week , an Ear , Nose and Throat surgeon , for example , can expect to spend 30 hours actually in an operating theatre , bent over his patient . |
| 15 | I bought an Amstrad 5086 just 2 months ago as a total novice , not even familiar with a keyboard on the advice of the staff of my local Dixon 's store . |
| 16 | Much laughter , jollity , and anticipation of a successful 12 months ahead with a government on the run . |
| 17 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 18 | She was imprisoned 12 feet underground in a narrow chamber for a day until a man walking his dogs discovered her and called the RSPCA . |
| 19 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 20 | So the fraction will be you spend forty pence out of a hundred pence . |
| 21 | This last great problem features an unprotected crux 30 feet up with a landing that would keep the local casualty department busy for some considerable time . |
| 22 | Pregnant bitches should be dosed at least once during pregnancy and the nursing litters dosed at least twice , at 1-2 weeks of age and again 2 weeks later with a drug specifically recommended for use in pups . |
| 23 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 24 | There 's a housing estate built about forty years ago on a disused pit . |
| 25 | The task was carried out , in remarkable circumstances , more than forty years ago by a good friend of England , the French historian , Edouard Perroy . |
| 26 | To illustrate the holding period return , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day CD ( with a coupon of 10 per cent ) with 50 days to maturity at a yield of 10 per cent and sells 30 days later at a yield of 10 per cent . |
| 27 | In the absence of the proverbial golf course , the lack of networks through which to find suitably experienced women for senior board appointments could be construed as the final obstacle — were it not , it was pointed out , for the rapid proliferation of alternatives in the form of Network , set up all of 12 years ago as a meeting point for women managers , the Scottish Women 's Enterprise Group and Businesswomen 's Clubs . |
| 28 | It is interesting to note that 300 years ago in a census to find the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , that Hailing was given as " no Papists , no Nonconformists but 60 Conformists " . |
| 29 | Andy Dannatt lost the ball in the tackle and from the scrum Edwards sent 18-year-old winger Jason Robinson sidestepping through from 30 yards out for a sparkling try . |
| 30 | Andy Currier was eventually able to provide consolation at the other end , but departed for the sin-bin 30 seconds later after a foul on Bob Jackson , accompanied by Paul Hulme , who questioned the referee 's decision too vehemently . |