Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 2 | After a few moments a truce was arranged . |
| 3 | After a few minutes a woman in a grey fur coat began to cross the street from my building . |
| 4 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 5 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 6 | After a few days a population of adherent migratory cells is found surrounding the initial explant , which by various criteria , including contribution to melanocytes in vivo ( 13 ) , appear to be a relatively pure population of neural crest cells . |
| 7 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 8 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 9 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 10 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |
| 11 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 12 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 13 | A property developer is hoping to defy the recession by putting flats in a converted Mill on the market at up to a quarter of a million pounds a time . |
| 14 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 15 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 16 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 17 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 18 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 19 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 20 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 21 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
| 22 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 23 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 24 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 25 | AFTER THE MONTHS of location shooting in Cornwall , and the completion of the interiors of Straw Dogs at Twickenham Studios in London in March 1971 , Dustin returned to his New York home , determined to spend as much time as possible with his family , only going down to his production office , SweetWall Productions , on West 56th Street , for a few hours a day . |
| 26 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 27 | Perhaps it will be both rather more demanding and more flexible than some , asking for a few hours a year but with more emphasis on personal planning . |
| 28 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
| 29 | Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance . |
| 30 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |