Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils from Grangefield Comprehensive , Newton Aycliffe dropped in with a measly 70,000 votes for their Miss Foster yesterday . |
| 2 | Solbourne Computer Inc , Longmont , Colorado , plans to deliver versions of its symmetric multi-processing ( SMP ) Sparc server architecture with a least 20 CPUs by the time Sun Microsystems Inc manages to wheel out its own 20-way SparcCenter 2000 slated for the end of next year ( UX No 411 ) . |
| 3 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 4 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 5 | Debate in trades councils is more wide-ranging , reflecting a diversity of views , that are always found in a more parochial environs of Labour Party , and individual trade union branches . |
| 6 | In a very few appearances on the mini tour , he accrued sufficient money to gain his card for the 1991 Volvo Tour . |
| 7 | This urban bias creates problems in itself , yet attempts to move away from this situation are often strongly resisted due to the continued adherence to a largely urban criteria of development values . |
| 8 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |
| 9 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |