Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In a great many respects the minor marriages were less successful than the major marriages . |
| 8 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 9 | Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target . |
| 10 | They reached the auto-route du Soleil and settled down to a steady ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 11 | Fifty-five years later , Hans Berger , a psychiatrist working in Jena , reported similar fluctuations in humans and discovered that , in a resting subject , this electroencephalogram ( EEG ) oscillated at a regular eight cycles a second , a pattern he called the alpha rhythm . |
| 12 | Through the wide forward unopening windows there was a riveting view of the rails stretching ahead , signals shining green in the distance , trees flashing back at a useful seventy miles an hour . |
| 13 | All being well , the pennyfarthings and other old two-wheelers will travel along the coast at a brisk eight miles an hour . |
| 14 | Direct proportionality , if I 'm driving at a steady sixty miles an hour , how far would I go in erm one hour ? |
| 15 | How far would I go in ten hours , if I 'm going at a steady sixty miles an hour ? |
| 16 | At a steady sixty miles an hour . |
| 17 | The motor tram rattled down the road at a steady 15 miles an hour . |