Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales of the present Milan missile have already exceeded a quarter of a million rounds at a cost of several thousand pounds each . |
| 2 | I found this difficult to believe , but erm judging by the number of pigeon forecasts , race forecasts that we issue , erm we 're very often talking about a quarter of a million pigeons at a time flying from A to B , and we provide the forecasts for these federations that race these pigeons , and there are a lot of pigeons flying about . |
| 3 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 4 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 5 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 6 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 7 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 8 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 9 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
| 10 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 11 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 12 | Initially for a few days at a time , then for weeks , and eventually whole months . |
| 13 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 14 | For a few days at the beginning of August 1920 , it was widely believed that the Government was preparing to send a new British Expeditionary Force to relieve the Polish Army . |
| 15 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 16 | For a few weeks at a time , staff and Library visitors will be able to see a succession of paintings from this talented group . |
| 17 | They 'll work in France for a few weeks at a time staying in hotels . |
| 18 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 19 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 20 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 21 | After completing his studies at Glasgow University , Gavin worked for a few months at a salmon farm near Ft William , checking for virus infection . |
| 22 | Of the three , the split between Sampras , 20 and Brandi , from whom he parted for a few months at the end of 1990 , was the greatest surprise . |
| 23 | This procedure takes a new snapshot and does pixel counts for various subareas such as a narrow strips at the edge of the region of the reference area which is supposed to contain the reference card . |
| 24 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |
| 25 | With our all-purpose Lloyds bankcard ( Visa/cashcard/ cheque guarantee card ) we were able to obtain up to our daily maximum limit on any one day , in US$ , within a few minutes at the bank . |
| 26 | But , put in a few pages at the end of chapters , they are rather an ‘ add-on ’ . |
| 27 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 28 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 29 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 30 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |