Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 2 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 3 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 4 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
| 5 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 6 | Within a short period , after over a hundred years in the Shurmurs ' hands , the mill was conveyed to William Humphries Bennet and , in 1806 , passed into the hands of John Knowles . |
| 7 | Jane 's mum Mary , 50 , was beaten to death for just a few pounds in 1981 . |
| 8 | particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air . |
| 9 | In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol . |
| 10 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 11 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 12 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 13 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 14 | He had lived quietly and unobtrusively for weeks behind Marble Arch , one of over a million foreigners in the British capital . |
| 15 | ‘ Just outside the village I discovered a quarry of over a hundred metres in diameter . |
| 16 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 17 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
| 18 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
| 19 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 20 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |
| 21 | The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days . |
| 22 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 23 | That translates into about a dozen seats in parliament and would be enough to cost the government its overall majority . |
| 24 | While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails . |
| 25 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 26 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
| 27 | As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser . |
| 28 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 29 | Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters . |
| 30 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |