Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , and you go inside , it 's got two floors each about floors about as tall as our house ! |
| 2 | He contends that their tax regime does little for families with children , discriminates in favour of dual earners , and presupposes that both parents have jobs . |
| 3 | There are those who put the blame for this on the writings of W.M. Davis , arguing that his all-embracing model of landscape evolution left little for geomorphologists to do besides applying the model successively to new areas . |
| 4 | He 'd branched out of mod and his look and outlook had changed little for years . |
| 5 | We recognize , all of us I 'm sure , that during periods of tight , financial stringency most sectional activity is beyond examination and inspe inspection as Mel who moved two four five requested . |
| 6 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |
| 7 | Hibernation and Torpor in Mammals and Birds by C. P. Lyman et at ( Academic £24–80 ) is a useful survey but has very little about birds . |
| 8 | ‘ We talk very little about opponents , and very little about tactics , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Lloyd George was not a person who knew little about clergymen . |
| 10 | This leads me to believe the fellow concerned knew little about foxes and even less about rabbiting . |
| 11 | He knew very little about tests done on blood from bones , only that they could be carried out . |
| 12 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 13 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 14 | Freddie knew little about children and held the belief of the uninitiated that every mother doted on her offspring . |
| 15 | A user may have a deep knowledge of business problems , but knowing little about computers , has no idea how they should be tackled . |
| 16 | NEW YORK 'S Empire State Ballroom was packed for four days last week with people who knew little about computers . |
| 17 | They knew little about computers and had bought the discs from another counterfeiter who 's yet to be caught . |
| 18 | They knew little about computers and had bought the discs from another counterfeiter who 's yet to be caught . |
| 19 | Tory politicians compounded this mistake by talking too much about means , too little about ends . |
| 20 | ‘ We talk very little about opponents , and very little about tactics , ’ he says . |
| 21 | A former merchant banker , Le Roux knew little about motorbikes ; he did n't even have a license to drive one . |
| 22 | No men in her life , really , not even her natural father , because he 'd gone away , emigrated , so she knew very little about men . |
| 23 | The success of Crookes and his successors with evacuated tubes meant that the passage of electricity through gases was more studied and better understood than that through solids . |
| 24 | If it 's been agreed that the treasurer spends £300 on publicity with £100 each for posters , leaflets and newspaper advertisements , he should be allowed the latitude to spend £150 on newspaper ads and £150 on leaflets if the publicity chairman thinks it necessary , and perhaps nothing on posters . |
| 25 | Under the new system , the Assembly would be increased to 108 deputies ; of the nine new seats for Moslems , three were for Shias and two each for Sunnis , Alawis and Druses . |
| 26 | In most LEAs the education committee is composed of various sub-committees : usually one for finance , at least one for schools ( in larger authorities there may well be separate ones for primary , secondary and special schools ) , at least one for further education ( which may be subdivided into youth and community work , adult education and recreation ) , and one each for careers , libraries and museums , and sites and buildings . |
| 27 | There are some orange balls available at £2.00 each for orders of a dozen |
| 28 | They drank a bottle of champagne ( 15s. seems to have been the standard charge at that period , 1s. each for liqueurs ) . |
| 29 | ( Have you noticed that about bankers ? |
| 30 | He never really had noticed things like that about horses . |