Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lurgan publican Ralph Hewitt faces an election after only a few weeks as a director of Glenavon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 10 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 11 | Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
| 16 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 17 | How our lives have changed in the course of just a few decades . |
| 18 | And it was n't a case of just a few beatings and that |
| 19 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 20 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 21 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 22 | One thing which will prove very disconcerting for a young puppy is to be left on its own in kennels after being in a home for just a few weeks . |
| 23 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 24 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 25 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 26 | particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air . |
| 27 | If you live in a village with only a few shops , you may need to include several streets on your plan . ) |
| 28 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 29 | But do not judge the size of a shoal by the number of fish you see rolling , for it could be a big shoal with just a few fish rolling , or a small shoal with all the fish rolling . |
| 30 | The wedding started with a simple service in City Hall with just a few witnesses , but once the hotel heard that Brenda and Pete wished to get married on the beach , they were swept off their feet . |