Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 2 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 3 | There were four of us in our party — Henniker and I , a young man introduced to me as Tom Spalding , and a girl of about twenty-two also an articled clerk — called Diana Robinson . |
| 4 | And at this stage , is n't that rather an academic consideration ? |
| 5 | It is perhaps hard for twentieth-century man , accustomed to consult maps for any journey , to realize how limited even an intelligent man 's knowledge might be , and how gaps in his information could well be filled by colourful and confused imagination . |