Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ This pool looks like a thousand others I 've seen . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a door like a thousand others in a wall like a thousand others . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It was a door like a thousand others in a wall like a thousand others . ’ |
| 6 | Even these , however , are insufficient to disguise the fact that , though more than adequate , the book looks , feels and reads like a hundred others . |
| 7 | It had just been an ordinary night , starting like a hundred others . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He parked his car among a dozen others , out of sight of the road , and walked inside . |