Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 3 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 4 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) . |
| 5 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 6 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 7 | If you have any of these problems , you seriously need to consider extending your exercise capability by quite an amount . |
| 8 | The Canadian dollar fell by nearly a cent against the US dollar in nervous overnight trading once media reports of his imminent resignation circulated on world financial markets . |
| 9 | The Stroud district of Gloucestershire was well developed ‘ Stroudwaters ’ having been a household name for nearly a century . |
| 10 | On election of Benchers , my proposal of direct election by Inn members of even a minimum of new Benchers per year has been unanimously rejected by all Inns . |
| 11 | If the borrower chooses the house buyers ' report , the work undertaken by the valuer results in both a report to the borrower and the necessary report to the society . |
| 12 | I changed the fertiliser order to once a year instead of quarterly . |
| 13 | Use rhubarb for a warming winter pudding with either a crumble topping or pastry . |
| 14 | Thus , in a number of stages during the 1980s , the Conservatives cut the basic rate of income tax by nearly a quarter ( from 33p to 25p in the £ ) while the top rate was reduced by more than half . |
| 15 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 16 | Goulding is set to link up with his hometown club after only a year at Leeds after his £90,000 move from Wigan . |
| 17 | New fashion ideas Transform a simple daytime look into stunning evening elegance with just a touch of gold |
| 18 | — Members of Framwellgate Moor and District Royal British Legion branch have used the Framwellgate Moor WMC as a meeting place for over a quarter of a century and Legion members said thank you to the club for providing them with free accommodation during that time . |
| 19 | So I was actually messing around with the Tax Officer for quite a while because I was on demob leave and I was also working so he was n't gon na let me have two lots of sa wages . |
| 20 | The Communication Advertising and Marketing Education Foundation ( CAM ) is an examining body and examination system for both a certificate and a diploma in communications . |
| 21 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
| 22 | Although there are many agencies operating in the domiciliary sector we have detailed utilization data for only a minority of these : home helps and the mobile meals services ( meals on wheels ) . |
| 23 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 24 | For Denny has been on the local comedy circuit for nearly a decade and was a runner-up in the Scouseology Awards two years ago . |
| 25 | He was glad to be transferred to the Army Education Corps after about a year , to discourse , with the rank of sergeant , to soldiers on topics such as ‘ why Turkey will remain neutral ’ , ‘ why Japan has entered the war ’ and so on . |
| 26 | His announcement implies that he had made pendulum clocks at least a year before then . |
| 27 | I shaved in cold water and walked out of the gate and across the parade ground to where a queue of people were waiting to be served at the kitchen . |
| 28 | Spare sails , half a ton of flour , 1000 litres of fuel and enough toilet paper for nearly a year . |
| 29 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 30 | Faced by a similar difficulty , WordPerfect , a closely held software supplier based in Orem , Utah , that dominated the word-processor market in the MS-DOS realm for almost a decade , has made even bigger mistakes . |