Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 32 | Well there 's a thing going round a few years ago were n't there with these models , just pay for them to go out there |
| 33 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 34 | Thank you , Lot number eighty three Er Lot number eighty is the next to offer a soapstone carving there 's the soapstone carving showing for a hundred pounds , at one hundred and ten , a hundred and ten pounds any more at one hundred and ten all done , at one hundred and ten pounds . |
| 35 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 36 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 37 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
| 38 | Lot number fifty four Lot fifty four copper bowl copper bowl showing for a hundred pounds , at one hundred and ten at a hundred and ten , twenty , thirty , forty , fifty sixty , seventy one eighty offered I 'm offered a hundred and eighty pounds , I shall sell for one eighty , one ninety going on sir ? |
| 39 | After robotisation the job became less skilled , was machine paced in that the cycle time was dictated by the speed at which the robot did the welding , and the human part of the job was filled by a semi-skilled operator belonging to a general trades union . |
| 40 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 41 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
| 42 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |
| 43 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |