Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 2 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 3 | While the lizard scuttles away to safety , the predator is left to discover , little by little , that its apparently succulent meal is in reality no more than a scaly scrag-end . |
| 4 | entire mass was guarded , on its left flank , by Kummer 's Army Group — in reality no more than a cavalry division , 44 infantry battalions and some artillery and bicyclists — and on the right , by the Kovess Army Group of two corps . |
| 5 | It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube . |
| 6 | And we do not charge the earth — in fact no more than a good quality single or double ‘ standard ’ bed . |
| 7 | Two wheels , one on top the other and a What looks like an eyepiece to look to look through . |