Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's still , we still I mean er er you perhaps need to talk to Rob to see what he wants his input , it 's always been a bit airy fairy and there , there are sheets ! the choice is not the same but they should be aware of some of the implications if they choose to go down such and such a road . |
| 2 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 3 | In its 77-year history , laughs Gauntlett , the firm has manufactured some 11,000 cars , rather fewer than three a week . |
| 4 | Numbers of students emerging from courses for DipSW , or its equivalent , are still fewer than 5,000 a year , according to CCETSW 's annual report for 1991–2 . |
| 5 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
| 6 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 7 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 8 | Despite opposition to their plans from many independent experts , the commission says the angle is likely to be reduced by as much as half a degree within the two years . |
| 9 | Later in the century the number shipped may have risen to as many as 100,000 a year , and the British share of the total certainly became larger . |
| 10 | For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week . |
| 11 | In the spaciousness of a large chamber they may make only four or five a second , but as they approach the rock walls and need to know exactly where they are in order not to crash into them , they increase the speed of the clicks until they are emitting as many as twenty a second and the sound becomes , to our ears , an almost continuous rattle . |
| 12 | ‘ It grieves me think that these drivers , sometimes as many as 60 a week , have to pay to spend the night in this car park but ca n't even go to the loo , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 14 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |