Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
| 2 | 1.23 As a result of the automatic directions or a direction for reciprocal disclosure of medical evidence , evidence is agreed in the majority of cases . |
| 3 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 4 | In some homes it is possible to stay for a few days or a week at a time either occasionally or on a regular basis . |
| 5 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 6 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 7 | Either the form with the above-mentioned characteristics or a slightly larger form with longer leaves . |
| 8 | fix it firmly at the vase with a few stitches or a spot of glue and pull it round the ‘ neck ’ by winding a thread round it ( you 'll have a few small folds here ) . |
| 9 | The town horses came in every three weeks or a month for re-shoeing . |
| 10 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 11 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As in any jet , thrust controls speed and elevator maintains glide angle on a continuous curving base leg to a four-mile final at a thousand feet or a little below . |
| 14 | A glance at the architectural section of any of the annual handbooks published by the leading denominations or a survey of the denominational press shows how important they had become . |
| 15 | One of the more interesting adjuncts to the Act for Burying in Woollen was the introduction of the funeral ticket — whether first suggested by the jobbing printers or a particularly ingenious coffin-maker is not known . |