Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi . |
| 2 | Conversely , then , a new variety can be formed if this conservative action of crossing is circumvented by reproductive isolation of a few individuals in new conditions , whether that isolation arises with or without geographical segregation . |
| 3 | It 's best to store the panelling for a few days in the room in which it will be used , to allow the moisture content of the wood to settle before installation . |
| 4 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 5 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |
| 6 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 7 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 8 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | Looking for a less demanding occupation , she opened the first Body Shop in a tiny premises in a back street of Brighton in 1976 , selling fifteen different products in plastic bottles with hand-written labels . |
| 10 | But his happy demeanour is n't likely to last , because not only has he got the move to a new premises in Nantes to handle , along with the updating of the 300 coupe and convertibles he 'll build next year to use Renault 's up-and-coming 24-valve V6 , he 's also got the De la Chapelle Parcours in his hands . |
| 11 | Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson . |
| 12 | Although Shelley smiled only faintly , Byron roared with laughter and said , ‘ Let me tell you of an inscription I once saw scrawled on the wall of a low jakes in Chelsea . |
| 13 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 14 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |
| 15 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 16 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 17 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |
| 18 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 19 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 20 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 21 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 22 | Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country . |
| 23 | The Museum considers itself a pioneer in the creation of educational programmes , an important component of a museum 's mission when it is the only major art collection within a thousand miles in almost any direction . |
| 24 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 25 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |
| 26 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a door like a thousand others in a wall like a thousand others . ’ |
| 28 | This arises when participation in a CU results in a switch from a low cost , to a higher cost , source of supply . |
| 29 | The estates varied in size from a few units in piecemeal developments to 30 or 40 plots on well serviced , carefully planned schemes . |
| 30 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |