Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 2 | Q3 losses down by almost a half at $2.4m produced a deficit $14.8m lower at $5.2m . |
| 3 | Maxim bypassed the village completely map-reading George up a third road above the farm and they left the car there with perhaps a quarter-mile walk down into the valley and up again to the cottage . |
| 4 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |
| 5 | It 's not all good : you can never find a toothbrush in our house and you dare n't put your keys down for even an instance . |
| 6 | ‘ We ought to get Karen here at least a week before she leaves , ’ he said to Celia that weekend , ‘ so she knows the routine . ’ |
| 7 | He 'll be able to return to his Florida oceanside home in just a couple of hours . |
| 8 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | All three have been attending Medau classes regularly for over a year now an have taken part in rallies etc . |
| 10 | Lacrosse can focus on a small area and resolve details down to perhaps a metre , or sacrifice clarity to cover a larger area . |
| 11 | Even worse hit was Nissan , with September sales down by nearly a half from 11,871 to 6058 . |
| 12 | They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees . |
| 13 | French names like New Man and Rodier Hommes were innovators in the 1970s , offering men a complete coordinated collection instead of just a range of suits or a collection of shirts . |
| 14 | Liebermann , so Vincent had heard , had once established his base there for quite a while . |
| 15 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're going to have to have a fairly visible presence there for quite a while to put the authoritarian opponents on notice that we mean business . ’ |
| 17 | Yet such an assessment ignores the independent forces at work in the interwar years which caused economic performance to fall well below economic potential ; it also fails to take into account the record of poor growth over at least a quarter-century before 1914 . |
| 18 | Three quarters of the respondents were using their system up to twice a week . |
| 19 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 20 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 21 | Cassie stayed at her family home for nearly a week , but on the Monday , with her parents due to leave the following morning , she packed her bags and prepared to go . |