Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of a [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For the space of two heartbeats the two protagonists , hunter and quarry , glared at each other across the intervening gap of a few feet , while hurtling through the night at better than 80 m.p.h .
2 In the ethogenic approach we follow the example of chemists and anatomists and adopt the intensive design , that is , we undertake a detailed study of a few cases selected as typical .
3 In a laboratory context , the isolation of the respondent during a T 1 — T 2 period of a few hours should remove this effect ; even changes such as sunlight may need to be eliminated .
4 A busy man who was prepared for ‘ another talk ’ after the prolonged exchange of a few days earlier , was not quite the self-absorbed , withdrawn person he has sometimes been portrayed .
5 A social phenomenon of this magnitude suggests that more was at work than either the inadequacies or the moral heroism of a few individuals .
6 So an early mark-down of a few pence was soon recouped , and by the close the FTSE index had reversed the initial fall of over nearly eight points as New York showed signs of a more stable performance .
7 Robbins 's script exposes the amorphous nature of the language of the right , and how hearts and minds are won by the simple utterance of a few platitudes about American values , freedom and the family .
8 How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ?
9 With the characteristic shrewdness of a former student of Chris Blackwell at Island , Ashley Newton finds a maxim to resolve the dilemma : ‘ there is no necessary contradiction between commercialism and quality ’ .
10 A swift wartime courtship , a deep passionate love of a few weeks , then marriage , separation and death .
11 ‘ The pretense that the constant repetition of a few words constitutes a story becomes an insult to the child 's intelligence ’ ( ibid , p.221 ) .
12 On the whole they are not , but the seasonal productivity of a few areas is very high , and subpolar seas include some of the richest patches of ocean known anywhere in the world .
13 The solution turns on delicate questions of the textual criticism of a few texts .
14 Then at the crucial point which only his body can decide , either he 'll drop ’ — she slapped the table — ‘ down to normal inside of a few hours , or his temp .
15 Today a team of friends played for him against the Brize Norton Club , before the match he walked the boundary with the great grandson of a former team mate .
16 He strode into cafes , schools and churches to meet and greet by name — all with the relentless energy of a former Balkans decathlon champion .
17 At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold .
18 For the simplest case of an all carbon backbone chain such as polyethylene , and so that equation ( 10.5 ) reduces
19 The separatist Northern League , which wants to secede from Rome , is now the strongest party of the wealthy north , and in Sicily the anti-Mafia movement of a former mayor , Leoluca Orlando , has taken nearly half the vote of the capital , Palermo .
20 Life , for the short space of a few weeks , was better than she had ever known it .
21 In other words , the delay in initial diagnosis of a few months may not matter that much to the urological management of most such patients in Britain .
22 As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters .
23 The furniture factories and timber yards in and around High Wycombe are the modern industrial outcome of a former woodland craft of the Chiltern beechwoods , when independent workers commonly known as ‘ chair-bodgers ’ made chair-legs , stools , tent pegs and spokes for wagon wheels , among other things .
24 With the methodical professionalism of a former detective sergeant with 20 years ' experience in London 's Metropolitan police , Jones had made a full note of a conversation in which Connelly asked , ‘ Have you considered a bag switch at Frankfurt ? ’
25 Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed .
26 Adjust by fractionally increasing size of a few spaces .
27 Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million .
28 This was a bribe-riddled deal which resulted in the first imprisonment of a former cabinet official .
29 For the short-term gain of a few mining companies . ’
30 Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy .
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