Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 3 | After only a few days one of the H . |
| 4 | Off just a four pounds higher mark , he looks a value bet in a race where the top three are strongly fancied but look likely to struggle giving away so much weight . |
| 5 | But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year . |
| 6 | It had been the great achievement of the geologists to explain how , given enough time , the operation of exactly the same forces visible today could explain the enormous variety of what could be observed on the inanimate earth , past and present . |
| 7 | The 28,000 mile race could be settled within the space of just a few hours this weekend . |
| 8 | The terror suspects were tailed around the clock by surveillance teams of about a dozen officers each . |
| 9 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 10 | And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes . |
| 11 | With only a few exceptions all those aged 18 or over are liable to pay the same basic charge . |
| 12 | A few miles from where the tiny ships first ‘ debouched from the Strait ’ is a spot which marks one of the suture-lines of the planet , one of those rare sites where can be seen the brushstrokes of creation . |
| 13 | At just a few days old , she and Carly , who were born in Rush Green Hospital , Romford , Essex , joined at the chest and upper abdomen , sharing a liver heart cavity , were separated in seven hours of surgery . |
| 14 | This is due to the fact that we are no longer told to add crushed rusks to our babies ' bottles at just a few weeks old . |
| 15 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 16 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 17 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 18 | Here it is , a breech at least a hundred yards long and the power station has been swept away . |
| 19 | There were only two chairs in the whole place for at least a dozen women many now uncomfortably unsupported by girdle or bra . |
| 20 | Both pictured a glamorous brunette , at least a dozen years older than herself . |
| 21 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 22 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it 's done by quite a few groups these days , ’ said Mike Morrissey of the CMAC . |