Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was |
| 2 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 3 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 4 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 5 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 6 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 7 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 8 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 9 | Although adults can wait for an expected reward , for example until the end of the month for their salary , pre-school children can not wait for even a few hours . |
| 10 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 11 | This study has shown that when phonemes are selectively encoded as broad classes ( the mixed sets ) or entirely encoded as mid-classes , utterances are sometimes parsed into over a million word-strings . |
| 12 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 13 | Prior to the 1960s , Soviet economic relations with Latin America were highly sporadic , unstable and confined to only a few countries , principally Argentina and Uruguay . |
| 14 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 15 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 16 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 17 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 18 | Perhaps efficiency has turned into dumping and state-aided advantages enjoyed by only a few industries here , but both sides should still be on the record . |
| 19 | Entrances should be preceded by only a few frames of ‘ dead ’ action , and exits should be equally neat . |
| 20 | This debate , still pursued by only a few specialists , has profound philosophical and theological implications . |
| 21 | After a two-year common course students elect and are selected for either a three-year honours degree in Consumer Studies or a four-year sandwich degree in Consumer Studies which , as well as leading to the award of an honours degree , includes a Diploma in Industrial Studies ( DIS ) awarded for the successful completion of a year 's industrial placement . |
| 22 | Some may bloom for only a few weeks , but their display is beautiful . |
| 23 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 24 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 25 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 26 | This interpretation was supported by the fact that a committee which might consist of only a few members could not , however honest and conscientious , assess impartially the value of its work or that of its individual members . |
| 27 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 28 | Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish . |
| 29 | As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser . |
| 30 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |