Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | Half an hour later , Harry left Breakspear College with scarcely a glance at what was now only a faint stain on the opposite wall . |
| 3 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 4 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 5 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 6 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) . |
| 7 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 8 | Students should be encouraged to find out about the Braille Alphabet from eg an encyclopaedia . |
| 9 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 10 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 11 | IBM Corp with only a 7% share of the workstation market , translating to some $670m looked decidedly odd in International Data Corp 's worldwide market share figures for workstations in 1992 , which we reported in CI No 2,152 . |
| 12 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 13 | If you have any of these problems , you seriously need to consider extending your exercise capability by quite an amount . |
| 14 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 15 | The Canadian dollar fell by nearly a cent against the US dollar in nervous overnight trading once media reports of his imminent resignation circulated on world financial markets . |
| 16 | The Stroud district of Gloucestershire was well developed ‘ Stroudwaters ’ having been a household name for nearly a century . |
| 17 | Fashion : GREEN — AND FIT TO BE SEEN Jane Mulvagh on how a family crisis prompted Europe 's largest clothing manufacturer to plan an environment-friendly label |
| 18 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 19 | On election of Benchers , my proposal of direct election by Inn members of even a minimum of new Benchers per year has been unanimously rejected by all Inns . |
| 20 | If the borrower chooses the house buyers ' report , the work undertaken by the valuer results in both a report to the borrower and the necessary report to the society . |
| 21 | I changed the fertiliser order to once a year instead of quarterly . |
| 22 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 23 | Use rhubarb for a warming winter pudding with either a crumble topping or pastry . |
| 24 | Thus , in a number of stages during the 1980s , the Conservatives cut the basic rate of income tax by nearly a quarter ( from 33p to 25p in the £ ) while the top rate was reduced by more than half . |
| 25 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 26 | Goulding is set to link up with his hometown club after only a year at Leeds after his £90,000 move from Wigan . |
| 27 | Earlier Lewin and Nnah , 21 , took a high-powered Mazda MX3 sports car from outside a Liverpool hotel to ‘ show off ’ . |
| 28 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 29 | New fashion ideas Transform a simple daytime look into stunning evening elegance with just a touch of gold |
| 30 | Using computer-controlled equipment , the project will study the use of CSPs in a cross-section of the Cambridge population from both an acoustic and an articulatory point of view . |