Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 2 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 3 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 4 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 5 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 6 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 7 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 8 | Well , right , erm so a three bars of chocolate , there 's one in the hundred grams , will cost you twenty eight pence . |
| 9 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 10 | Only a few leaders like Lenin denounced the entire conflict as an imperialist war , useful only in hastening the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 11 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 12 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 13 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 14 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 15 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 16 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
| 17 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 18 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 19 | Only a few hours by train . ’ |
| 20 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 21 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 22 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 23 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 24 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 25 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
| 26 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 27 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
| 28 | While this strategy may be appropriate for a ‘ mission area ’ where only a few pockets of Christians are to be found and they have to decide between going to one place at the expense of another , it must be applied rather differently in a situation where the Church has extensive geographical coverage . |
| 29 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 30 | Tomorrow morning , just the odd light shower about anywhere , but only a few spots of rain , it wo n't be long before the sun comes out yet again . |