Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 2 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 3 | Clarke drove on for a further 200 metres before stopping and when he did emerge from the van witnesses reported that he was in a confused state . |
| 4 | The eruption of Krakatoa has some parallels in these respects , for after an impressive opening , the eruption dragged on for a full three months before reaching its climax on 26 and 27 August . |
| 5 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 6 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 7 | 2 Add the garlic , tomatoes , thyme and green beans and cook gently for a further 5–7 minutes . |
| 8 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes then break the fish into bite-size pieces . |
| 9 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes , turning the carrots all the time . |
| 10 | So I think drop Mortimer and bring Colimore in for a full ninety minutes and then and and again and again and again . |
| 11 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
| 12 | Duncan Shearer and Mixu Paateleinen expected to lead the attack alongside Eoin Jess , the home fans should be in for an exciting ninety minutes . |
| 13 | The wish may well be granted , but possibly only after a further 90 days has gone by ! |
| 14 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 15 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 16 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 17 | This started with the Compair-Holman factory announcing a cut of 500 jobs in its workforce , together with a further 1,500 jobs at risk and 2,500 other jobs in dependent businesses left insecure . |
| 18 | These Diploma holders , together with a further four members who qualified for the FSD under the Lombard Scheme , bring the total number of FSD holders to 387 worldwide . |
| 19 | These include the six normal kinematic freedoms of three translations and three rotations , together with an additional three freedoms of scale . |
| 20 | In more remote areas such as the Carpathian Forest , however , the picture is brighter , with deer and wild boar in large numbers , together with an estimated 8,000 bears and 1,500 lynx . |
| 21 | They closed the old door behind them and there I was , alone with a few dozen stiffs . |
| 22 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 23 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 24 | In Gwynedd the argument was only over a few hundred dwellings . |
| 25 | Each eye is about a centimetre across and is packed with up to 4 million light receptors , lit through an opening which can be varied from 3 millimetres down to a tiny 0.4 millimetres . |
| 26 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 27 | The reason for his agonising experience was an injured knee which kept his time down to a modest four hours 32 seconds . |
| 28 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 29 | They reached the auto-route du Soleil and settled down to a steady ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 30 | The scarf was simply to protect her hair-do in that open vehicle as it bowled along at a business-like sixty kilometres per hour and , with the sunglasses , conferred upon her a touch of the Jackie Kennedy chic to which she was innocent enough to aspire . |