Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have found Roman , medieval and Georgian losses within a few yards when working suburban grass verges . |
| 2 | This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work . |
| 3 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 4 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 5 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 6 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 7 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 9 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 10 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 11 | These have short periods , from a few days to a few weeks . |
| 12 | This process can take anything from a few weeks to a few months . |
| 13 | In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months , depending on the whim of the Sheriff . |
| 14 | And a pioneering construction course , run by women for women , will provide the group with the necessary bricklayers and joiners needed to convert five derelict properties into a new women 's centre . |
| 15 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 16 | The preparations for an " open-book " examination should rather consist of preparing adequate notes — possibly in swot-card form of all aspects of the work , with , perhaps , the support of marked passages in a few textbooks . |
| 17 | The department was changed from Social Studies to a full Humanities department teaching ‘ O ’ Level and CSE in History , Geography and Social Studies . |
| 18 | She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings … |
| 19 | All 129 passengers aboard a Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) survived after it crash-landed near Stockholm on Dec. 27 . |
| 20 | The event takes in one lap of the famous TT course and 12 laps of a seven miles circuit , coming down each time along the promenade . |
| 21 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 22 | He wanted a few answers to a few riddles . |
| 23 | Although the endless state visits to Harare or Mauretania always climaxed with the publication of pompous declarations and assertions that trade was going to increase by generous percentages within a few years , the consequences of these visits were negligible apart from providing a few more exhibits for the trophy rooms in Bucharest . |
| 24 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 25 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 26 | In turn , ‘ a striking development ’ , as the 1974 Press Commission researchers called it , was ‘ the concentration of the ownership of newspapers in contiguous towns into a few hands ’ ( Hartley et al. , 1977 , p. 73 ) . |
| 27 | In the space of approximately the last quarter of the nineteenth century positivist criminology ‘ developed from the idiosyncratic concerns of a few individuals into a programme of investigation and social action which attracted support throughout the whole of Europe and North America ’ ( Garland , 1985a ) . |
| 28 | He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute . |
| 29 | They sprayed the subjects with cold water when they were undoubtedly in REM sleep , and then woke them after varying intervals of a few minutes . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend 's question speaks for itself , and no doubt we shall hear more about such matters in a few minutes . |