Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the day there was a break of eleven riders who were joined by another five and the group gained an advantage of nearly four minutes . |
| 2 | That figure was made up as to sixteen thousand three hundred and seventy eight pounds being two third of Mr salary plus an addition of about four thousand pounds to cover Mrs additional help . |
| 3 | From those humble beginnings , Oxfam has grown into Britain 's largest aid agency with an income of nearly 70 million pounds . |
| 4 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |
| 5 | Gold cards , for which you must have an income of around £25,000 a year , are an attractive option because of the |
| 6 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 7 | Moseley cites a University of East Anglia Survey in rural Norfolk which indicated that , in 1975 , only 8 per cent of households with an income of more than £2,000 per annum had no car , although even families with much lower incomes attempted to run cars in rural areas ( Moseley et al . |
| 8 | Three-quarters of local households had an income of less than £10,000 in 1987 . |
| 9 | The same justification was used by Thomas Cromwell in the mid-1530s when he began the dissolution of all those bodies with an income of less than £200 a year . |
| 10 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 11 | By comparison , more than three in five of the older working-class women had an income of less than £30 per week and none had over £60 ( Taylor and Ford , 1983 , p. 192 ) . |
| 12 | Chesterton said that ‘ tradition is the democracy of the dead ’ but in France ‘ the dead ’ get a seat in parliament , together with three secretaries each , interest-free loans , subsidised foreign travel and an income of about £40,000 , half of which is tax free . |
| 13 | June Roder , 62 , a pensioner from Ilford , has an income of about £6,000 a year from pensions and savings . |
| 14 | Erm well if she 's going to be er having an income of about twenty thousand a year after the mortgage is paid I think that would be sufficient . |
| 15 | From Boswell we learn that the Laird of Macleod was in debt to the tune of forty thousand pounds , and this Hebridean Micawber had an income of only thirteen hundred a year . |
| 16 | If say the female has got an income of only er two thousand a year , she 's got er an unused allowance of fourteen forty five , in other words , erm that er three four four five allowance is n't being used now , I mean if we put ten thousand into his name , erm we would er suffer tax at erm say twenty five percent on most of it . |
| 17 | First , all fission theories place the Moon in an orbit of very low inclination with respect to the Earth 's equator . |
| 18 | The violence associated with the BUF from the outset , and which continuing throughout its history , represented an interaction of mutually opposed and conflicting forces . |
| 19 | At first , the Zuwaitina canteen milk seemed to everyone concerned an instance of just such a letter-of-the-law possession , The realization that it was an issue of constitutional principle came slowly , when the Jordanian 's lawyer ( Abdulsalam Abdulhadi ) outlined his defence . |
| 20 | If Geertz is right that cockfighting is , perceived from a particular angle , an instance of how Balinese men imagined themselves to be , it is an imaginary projection Geertz too uncannily shares . |
| 21 | Therapist : ‘ What we will do in this first session is an assessment of exactly what 's going on : first we will look at the problems at the moment ; second we will look at background factors such as your family and personal history ; and third we will try to pull it all together and formulate what is going on , and then decide on what the best course of action is . |
| 22 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 23 | I doubt whether a judge , either of the High Court or of the county court , would have regarded himself as qualified to make an assessment of so substantial a claim . |
| 24 | An assessment of how the child is able to use his sight in day-to-day situations of work and play can be helpful in indicating the kind of activities involving vision that will be possible , and the kinds of learning and play materials that will be particularly appropriate for each child . |
| 25 | In addition , from the analysis of reports from a sample of schools , there will be an assessment of how resources allocated on the grounds of social disadvantage are spent , ie. whether they benefit children in need . |
| 26 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 27 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
| 28 | Even if it does happen , it does not force the conclusion that speaker 1 has monitored speaker 2 's speech and made an assessment of how often speaker 2 uses that variant . |
| 29 | All the quality papers led with an assessment of Too Long a Winter , and marvelled at the astonishing life led by this old lady with the gleaming white hair in that frozen lonely Yorkshire dale . |
| 30 | The Good Gardens Guide 1992 ( Vermilion , £11.99 ) provides comprehensive information and an assessment of about 1,000 gardens . |