Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 4 | This procedure takes a new snapshot and does pixel counts for various subareas such as a narrow strips at the edge of the region of the reference area which is supposed to contain the reference card . |
| 5 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 6 | Lot fifty three again it 's in front of the rostrum here , Lot number fifty three for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred , you all done ? |
| 7 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 8 | On 15 December Helen 's baby , a tiny perfect girl , was born , but her labour was long and difficult and she was very ill for a few days after it . |
| 9 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 10 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 11 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 12 | Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them . |
| 13 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All for a few inches of bloody zipper ! |
| 16 | ‘ There will be enough wages to keep you all for a few weeks at least , until you have a chance to find another situation . |
| 17 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 18 | We all know that we feel better after a few days in the mountains but why is this ? |
| 19 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Tiger Islands , the Brujas Islands and the Trinidad Islands are the summits of drowned hills , covered with tropical jungle and noisy with a hundred kinds of colourful birds . |
| 22 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 23 | But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling . |
| 24 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
| 25 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 26 | We should have that in a few minutes on the , the quotes side , Mark 's gon na bring them in to me . |
| 27 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 28 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 29 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 30 | Commuters can expect delays on the Northern Lane service tonight due to a technical problems at Sandhills and an incident at Moorfields . |