Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
| 2 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |
| 3 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 4 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
| 5 | Some years ago a man-hole was built behind the retaining wall . |
| 6 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 7 | 2 years ago the total was just under 8,000 . |
| 8 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 9 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 10 | Some days later the wreckage was found by three shepherds . |
| 11 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |
| 12 | A few years ago the start was changed from the South Reading Community Centre to the Rivermead Leisure Centre ; the new set-up has proved popular with runners . |
| 13 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 14 | Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin . |
| 15 | A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister . |
| 16 | From this point onwards the headteacher was completely won over . |
| 17 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 18 | A few seconds later the banging was answered by two sharp thuds . |
| 19 | Until the fourteenth century only the Church was interested in temporal measurement and division . |
| 20 | A few nights later the job was done . |
| 21 | The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound . |
| 22 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |
| 23 | However , six months later the scheme was revised . |
| 24 | Six months later the Campaign was ready with a formidable opposition case to make . |
| 25 | Despite all this and more we decided that the asking price of £28,000 was about right and six months later the purchase was completed and we moved in . |
| 26 | Six months later the conversion was complete . |
| 27 | Six years ago the practice was prohibited . |
| 28 | When six years later a son was finally born , his new family simply threw him out and the poverty is so great in the region that one month spent begging and homeless brought him to death 's door . |
| 29 | Six days later the treaty was ratified and the concession agreement came into force to last until July 28 2042 when the Tunnel reverts to the governments . |
| 30 | Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 . |