Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] others " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 2 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 3 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 4 | The canteen was like a thousand others , run by unpaid volunteers and makeshift and bare , but the smile of the elderly helper was as bright as her flowered pinafore . |
| 5 | ‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a door like a thousand others in a wall like a thousand others . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was a door like a thousand others in a wall like a thousand others . ’ |
| 8 | Even these , however , are insufficient to disguise the fact that , though more than adequate , the book looks , feels and reads like a hundred others . |
| 9 | It had just been an ordinary night , starting like a hundred others . |
| 10 | That passage , like a few others , had ended at a stairway : up or down were the only choices . |
| 11 | When the conductress and the girl turned and began their precarious stiff-armed run along the platform back to the wrought-iron steps of carriage No 3 , it was the signal for a dozen others to do likewise . |
| 12 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 13 | Anyway , he turned up at my house sometime later and , sure enough , I had n't finished it — so we sat down and did it together , along with a few others while we were in the mood . ’ |
| 14 | What was clear from my own research and experience was that all of these ‘ crazes ’ or student ‘ tides ’ , along with a few others , existed side by side in 1988 . |
| 15 | On Friday night Alan had met his project deadline , and spent the evening in the pub , celebrating with a few others from his course . |
| 16 | The European Year of Tourism officially ended at a conference in Budapest , at which the HCIMA presented and participated in the workshop on training and management along with a few others , including the President of the Committee for Vocational training in Germany and the Deputy Secretary of the World Tourism Organisation . |
| 17 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 18 | And over all hummed and shimmered the warring coloured adverts for Spiderglass and Madreidetic and Usines du Rhône with a dozen others belting out music and olfacts that dizzied her to nausea . |
| 19 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 20 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 21 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 22 | He parked his car among a dozen others , out of sight of the road , and walked inside . |
| 23 | Plus a few others , that I ca n't mention . |
| 24 | These allowances , plus a few others , are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income . |