Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denmark joined the EEC for much the same reasons as the British did : she wished to ensure that she was not excluded from a large ‘ home ’ market , particularly for her agricultural products . |
| 2 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 3 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 5 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 6 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 7 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 8 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 9 | Lurgan publican Ralph Hewitt faces an election after only a few weeks as a director of Glenavon . |
| 10 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
| 11 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 12 | When paths are short , every rule on the path will gain an improved weight after just a few searches , and for a good rule , the gain in weight will be significant even if the rule is first on the path . |
| 13 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 14 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 16 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 17 | Yet to arrive at this version , Ohmann has nullified the effect of only a few transformations : those transformations used to form coordinated sentences ( cf[5] ) , relative clauses ( cf [ 6 ] ) , and comparative clauses , together with certain deletion rules . |
| 18 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 19 | The immense width of the two main roads , one with a minimum width of practically a hundred feet and the other of sixty-six feet , reflects the state of even the main roads before the days of the turnpikes and above all of the scientific roadmaking initiated by Metcalf and Macadam in the late eighteenth century . |
| 20 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 21 | That leaves the Scots with just the All Blacks to beat , this summer . |
| 22 | As we saw earlier , trends in elite recruitment show no sign of reflecting the increase in qualified candidates from outside the ancient universities and public schools . |
| 23 | He outlined his purpose to the pair of journalists in much the same words as he had used to the members of the nascent Rothschild CPRS on the lawn at No. 10 in 1971 : |
| 24 | The music you need one bar of music line with those blobs which are the note heads in exactly the right places . |
| 25 | This example might seem unrealistically pessimistic , as a new band may feel confident of being able to record and release their album in just a few months , with money from sales and royalties quickly starting to now in . |
| 26 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
| 27 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 28 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
| 29 | Everybody has a boss , a person who has the responsibility to oversee his or her work ; the Chairperson of the Board has the company 's shareholders while the Prime Minister has to face the electorate for a renewal of the mandate at least every five years . |
| 30 | In addition quality standards require information on costs to be given to clients at least every six months , with clients to be notified when an agreed limit on costs is approached . |