Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 2 | For those with bags of energy left after exploring the valley , try the local night club , or a few beers in the local pub — The Londoner ! |
| 3 | Most ‘ educationists ’ subscribed to the same principle , although a few teachers in the National Association of Labour Teachers and the TUC had begun to look beyond ‘ equality of opportunity ’ to equality of provision . |
| 4 | The scheme , which already covers more than a million motorists in the UK , can cost as little as £6.50 a year . |
| 5 | ‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ? |
| 6 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 7 | Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year . |
| 8 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |
| 9 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 10 | As powerless as the train , we sat for three and a half hours in the dark — key phrase , that — before a locomotive of more elderly years arrived from Newcastle to give us a croggy . |
| 11 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 12 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 13 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 14 | A MOTHER who waited two and a half years in a Spanish jail before being convicted on drug charges was freed yesterday after receiving remission on her sentence for being ‘ a model prisoner ’ . |
| 15 | As a man without qualifications he drifted towards a commercial career but , after two and a half years in a city shipping office , was rescued by a legacy of £1,000 from an aunt . |
| 16 | In her two and a half years in the Yemen , TRACY THOMPSON finds an almost unspoilt land to sketch , paint , and immortalise . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 18 | Small areas , finishing touches and a few stitches in a different type of yarn are easy to add once the knitting is completed . |
| 19 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 20 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 21 | Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them . |
| 22 | Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations . |
| 23 | For all but a few weeks in the year there is the demand of regular attendances and rehearsals , often at unsocial hours , as well as regular private practice . |
| 24 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |
| 25 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |
| 26 | Roget 's Thesaurus offers many approximations to the word ‘ fine ’ , as well as a few phrases in the connexion . |
| 27 | The pensione was of the reassuringly old-fashioned type which was used to catering mainly for parties of middle-aged English , American , German or Scandinavian women , though a few men in the shape of clergymen and husbands were also accommodated . |