Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Comparable figures for the same periods last year were $1.104 billion ( £638.7 million ) and $512.9 million ( £289.5 million ) In 1992 the company sold seventy lots for over $1 million , compared to Christie 's sixty-nine .
2 After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes .
3 After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure .
4 After a few seconds all movement ceased and silence returned to the glade .
5 After a few weeks other problems appeared and the plaintiff sued for the cost of repairing them .
6 After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock .
7 One of the many issues young people have to address in the aftermath of courtship is that they and their partners have feet of clay .
8 Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year
9 The spatial differences are mainly between the more remote areas and the accessible countryside ; while some of the latter areas experienced population growth from the 1920s , many of the more remote rural areas experienced population losses of more than 15 per cent even between 1951 and 1971 ( Countryside Review Committee 1977a ) .
10 The Taiwanese will be billeted at the Porirua Peace College from August 20th to September 6th where they will have intensive training sessions all day and watch videos of the All Blacks all night .
11 But Mr Swash said : ‘ These parties are one of the few occasions some people get out .
12 One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn .
13 One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world .
14 The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year .
15 I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country .
16 ‘ We 've trained against the All Blacks sevens squad , seriously , we have , ’ the Bear insisted .
17 We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said .
18 Galwey , who will be winning his tenth cap , last played for Ireland against the All Blacks last summer .
19 RANGERS , who ended Motherwell 's reign as Tennant 's Scottish Cup holders last season , begin their defence of the trophy against the same opponents next month .
20 For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime .
21 Betty and George found their support in the local day centre , Jill from a relative 's support group and Gladys through a care attendant scheme that relieved her responsibilities for a few hours each day .
22 Could you come for a few hours each day , do you think ? ’
23 I have to drop the work on the catalogue and get into my studio for a few hours each day to carry further a painting which began as a request : it is called ‘ War Games ’ .
24 During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone .
25 You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week .
26 She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday .
27 Although she had n't expected to , she actually managed to sleep for a few hours that night .
28 Spend some time reading or , even better , join a class and then practise , practise , practise — just for a few minutes each day .
29 Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins .
30 Well , let's look for a few moments this morning at one such incident when Jesus did do it and it 's in er , Mark chapter four , I want to read a few verses from there , Mark chapter four .
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