Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [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 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 9 | His announcement implies that he had made pendulum clocks at least a year before then . |
| 10 | With the help of a co-operative credit analyst who is three months out of an English degree , we package a stunning little credit that sweeps through the loan committees without even a flesh wound . |
| 11 | The oak-beamed four-bedroom house stands surrounded by apple trees in almost an acre of land in the village of Snetterton , just a mile from a racing circuit . |
| 12 | ALL OF the options being considered for block vote reform leave the trade unions with either a majority or a veto . |
| 13 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 14 | Regardless of the method used to reproduce it , the typesetting systems of even a decade ago were slow , cumbersome and highly skill-intensive . |
| 15 | The ‘ cheese ’ is a local name for the pulped apples used in cider making and the stones are supposedly similar to the old cider presses until recently a feature of many a Cornish farm . |
| 16 | Next on the list was the British Women 's Championship at Hoylake where she defeated Mary McKenna , Aline van der Haegen , Linzi Fletcher , Catriona Lambert and Elaine Farquharson , in that order , after having qualified for the match-play stages with only a shot to spare . |
| 17 | Significant VAT liabilities for both a landlord and tenant can arise on many occasions during the life of a commercial building 's lease . |
| 18 | These exhibits were mostly just single figures , not set out in any kind of tableau , but isolated in their stage clothes with just a name plate for company . |