Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the week ashore you meet your companions and after a few discreet words the lead crew sorts you out . |
| 2 | Its report was sent to my supervisors in February 1988 , and after a few minor changes the college 's final approval was received in May . |
| 3 | The whole regiment had been cut to emergency rations of a mere three meals a day , and those cold and rain soaked , eaten in miserable silence . |
| 4 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 5 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 6 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 7 | However , after the Commissioner had been in office for a mere three months the Government introduced a Green Paper which proposed to extend her powers significantly , and under the Employment Act 1990 , section 10 , she was given power to assist members in enforcement of their common law contractual rights against the union . |
| 8 | The ambience Iona Abbey aims to provide in terms of welcome and acceptance is one she hopes to recreate in her own home : ‘ When people live together , they share life-stories over the washing-up , ’ says the woman poised to play hostess to up to eight guests , for a possible five days every week . |
| 9 | Japan and the United States agreed on June 4 , after some years of often acrimonious debate , to extend for a further five years the deal reached in 1986 on the easing of access to the Japanese market for US manufacturers of chips for use in computer assembly . |
| 10 | On Aug. 12 the UN Security Council decided to renew for a further 120 days the sanctions which had been imposed against Libya in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 11 | Following a Security Council meeting of Dec. 9 , the UN extended for a further 120 days the application of limited sanctions against Libya , in force since April [ see p. 38839 ] . |
| 12 | Parliament voted on Jan. 17 to renew for a further six months the state of emergency first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] and regularly renewed since then . |
| 13 | On March 18 the Lithuanian Supreme Council ( parliament ) extended for a further six months the direct rule imposed in September 1991 on the Vilnius and Salcininkai local regions [ see p. 38419 ] , and also voted to postpone fixing a date for elections to the local councils there . |
| 14 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 15 | Sponsored by Wedgwood , Ray attended Staffordshire University for around nine hours each week and studied at home for a further 12 hours a week . |
| 16 | Bangladesh and India were to extend for a further three years the trade agreement due to expire in October 1992 , All-India Radio reported on Aug. 6 following talks in New Delhi . |
| 17 | And Morse did the same , feeling for a few small moments an intense and splendid happiness . |
| 18 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 19 | For a few agonizing minutes the camera holds on her face as she experiences — she hardly seems to be enjoying — sexual attentions out of the range of the camera . |
| 20 | She leaned back against him , revelling in the strength and warmth of his body , allowing herself for a few luxurious moments the unaccustomed joy of feeling secure in his embrace . |
| 21 | The bureau is looking for people with a spare six hours a week who would be able to cope with working in a busy office . |
| 22 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
| 23 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 24 | But apart from a few minor lines the Wüppertal line remains the only substantial operations . |
| 25 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 26 | In a great many respects the minor marriages were less successful than the major marriages . |
| 27 | In Tervoort 's ( 1983 ) survey he discovered six of his responding countries had a signed spoken language form ( Finland , Ireland , Norway , Rumania , Sweden and the Soviet Union ) , but he also discovered in a further five countries an ‘ unofficial ’ system of signs structured to reflect the spoken language . |
| 28 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 29 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 30 | It is impossible to convey to an outsider in a few short words the hothouse emotional atmosphere of such an establishment , with its all-too-conscientiously suppressed sexuality , and the consequent hysteria , or just plain silliness . |