Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 2 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 3 | William , who has been on invalidity benefit since the accident , accepted a settlement of £70,000 a few days before the case started . |
| 4 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 5 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 6 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 7 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 8 | The alternative permitted hours are , on weekdays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. , on Saturdays the same hours as for weekdays or alternatively , 1 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. , and on Sundays 12.30 pm. to 2 p.m. and 4 pm. to 9 p.m . |
| 9 | Courage in the Skies ( Stanley Paul , 208pp , illus , hbk , £18.99 ) by AVM Johnnie Johnson and W/C Laddie Lucas two distinguished World War Two pilots , brings to life the many characters that have played a prominent part in aviation combat history , along with the many amazing developments in aircraft technology from the days of World War One to the more recent Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 10 | If this is to labour the obvious , it is because the formulation quoted above serves to anticipate the conclusion that a statute should attach to non-owners the same rights and liabilities . |
| 11 | In order to ensure compatibility with qualifications obtained by more traditional means , centres may only offer , through APL the same qualifications that they are validated to offer by other means . |
| 12 | Yeah he was more real I mean when you sort of just sit there she , she threw me off track a few times but er he was more realistic so therefore . |