Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Guest , of United , said the proposals for speed restrictions would mean buses travelling over 50 speed humps on a half hour round trip . |
| 2 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 3 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 4 | If untreated , recovery occurs after a few weeks , but discharging abscesses may remain in the groin . |
| 5 | ZOOLOGIST Kristy Bird 's love affair with Africa resumes in a few weeks when she embarks on a special project to study the impact of poaching on Kenya 's elephant population . |
| 6 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 7 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 8 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 9 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 10 | Campaign to help find released offenders decent places to live Audrey Gillan speaks to a former convict and drunk back on the right track now he has his own home . |
| 11 | Steve Richardson passes on a few tips on how to lower your scores by improving your on-course tactics . |
| 12 | They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time . |
| 13 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 14 | But there may not be any tax to pay on it if the pension comes from a former employer of hers , and if she has a National Insurance retirement pension from her own contributions the special ‘ wife 's earned income allowance ’ will be due . |
| 15 | A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole . |
| 16 | His deputy , a Scot , later received a circular from the Food and Dairy Products Committee which extended all expiry dates by a few weeks . |
| 17 | Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy . |
| 18 | Each fingernail grows about an half inch every three months , and toenails about a third of that rate . |
| 19 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 20 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
| 21 | The Northern Echo , based in Darlington , Co Durham , yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from a former soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ shambles ’ of Ulster security . |
| 22 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 23 | A set consists of a one-to-many relationship between two record types ( relations in the relational model ) . |
| 24 | But Southend kept alive their slim play-off hopes with an own goal by Marker , the Plymouth captain , and a brilliant diving header by their captain Benjamin . |