Example sentences of "hardly any [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 2 | The voting system means that voters see hardly any correlation with the election results and the governments they produce , as the recent crisis in April 1991 showed . |
| 3 | There is hardly any bitterness for the devastation caused by the war ; there has been hardly any outcry about the inability to redeem Japanese notes-and the Japs issued Rs562 crores worth £420 million , over 30 years of Burma 's national revenue . |
| 4 | If the stretches of river you fish for chub are those featureless , barren reaches , with hardly any changes in the pace of the current , or depth ; no vegetation ; where everything is much of a muchness , then you are unlucky in that the only way you can locate fish is to fish for them , or rely on what other anglers can tell you . |
| 5 | The infant , cradled in Miriam 's arms , began to cry , but so feebly that its noise made hardly any impression on the expanse of open air . |
| 6 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 7 | There is hardly any bitterness for the devastation caused by the war ; there has been hardly any outcry about the inability to redeem Japanese notes-and the Japs issued Rs562 crores worth £420 million , over 30 years of Burma 's national revenue . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a peculiar thing , Sally , but there is hardly any sort of a file on Harley and I ca n't find an actual signed contract . |
| 9 | There was hardly any area of the wall where the order of the mortared stone blocks was not interrupted by a face or a protruding limb . |
| 10 | To say merely that ‘ things are different now ’ is hardly any consolation for the pain and bitterness of past experience and bears little assurance of a future political and military stability in Europe . |
| 11 | In the middle of the borders , where I ca n't reach without treading on the soil , I grow shrubs and perennials that need hardly any attention during the year . |