Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sartre is reported to have said that he did not feel free without a thousand francs in his pocket ; this is clearly a freedom which can only be enjoyed by a few . |
| 2 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 3 | We all know that we feel better after a few days in the mountains but why is this ? |
| 4 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 5 | Russian losses were massive — General Falkenhayn estimated human loss at about ‘ three-quarters of a million men in prisoners alone ’ — and artillery and weaponry of all kinds had been taken in great quantity . |
| 6 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 7 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 8 | Overall , by next April — when nearly 1 million people will gain from this year 's real increase , either directly through income support or through increased entitlement to housing or community charge benefit — we shall in three years have steered an extra one third of a billion pounds in real extra benefit to less well-off pensioners , in a way which I believe the whole House will welcome and support . |