Example sentences of "a [num] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 2 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first , then stole a single and had a 3 at the seventh to go 8-2 up . |
| 3 | Jackie and Hill then did a one-two at the Glen , leaving the championship to be decided in Mexico . |
| 4 | He totalled 98 on his first professional outing , which included a 10 at the eleventh . |
| 5 | Colin Magee , of Douglas , receives our accolade for a hole-in-one at the demanding 188-yard second ( stroke index 6 ) at Rowany Golf Club , Port Errin , Isle of Man . |
| 6 | Among a group at five-under is his Australian compatriot , Senior , who banked A$100,000 ( £50,000 ) for scoring a hole-in-one at the par 3 fifteenth . |
| 7 | However , a six at the 14th brought him back level with Woosnam . |
| 8 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 9 | Dave had taken a six at the 17th from nowhere . |
| 10 | The members , a dozen at the very most , pronounced on every current topic . |
| 11 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 12 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 13 | On good drawing ice , Smith had a 4 at the first . |
| 14 | Smith drew for a 4 at the first . |
| 15 | The holders , Hammy McMillan 's Stranraer , had a 4 at the eighth to break Warwick Smith 's Perth and win by 9-3 . |
| 16 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first , then stole a single and had a 3 at the seventh to go 8-2 up . |
| 17 | But he ran out of steam in the closing stages , took a 6 at the long sixth , and gave hope to the rest that the £41,660 top prize might still be available . |
| 18 | It were a five at the other end Derek ! |
| 19 | He handed in a nine-over-par 81 and only two players , the Dane , Steen Tinning , and Irishman Philip Walton , who had a 9 at the twelfth , had a worse return . |
| 20 | In the six years in which Ian Martin was secretary general , Amnesty International 's worldwide tally of members and subscribers doubled from about 500,000 in 1986 to more than a million at the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 21 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 22 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 23 | If one stroke settled Wadkins , it was his second putt for a four at the first hole . |
| 24 | Nearly 12 hours later , he did sink it and then made a four at the 15th to keep in touch with Parry . |
| 25 | The Australian has lost more majors than most have won , and Faldo , who had fired a 68 for a six-under 274 , ruthlessly carved out a four at the sudden-death 18th . |
| 26 | We reckon there must have been a hundred at the meal . |
| 27 | The man who so impressed Jack Nicklaus in last year 's Open struck a four iron to eight feet for a two at the next and added three more birdies . |
| 28 | A six-iron second shot reduced the 15th to an easy birdie , he narrowly missed for a two at the next and then finished three , three with first a seven-iron and then a nine-iron which landed close to the flags . |
| 29 | Norman birdied the 11th , coaxed home a six-yarder for a two at the 13th , and surged ahead with a two-shot swing coming on the next green . |
| 30 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |