Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 2 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 3 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 4 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 5 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 6 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 7 | In municipal elections held on May 26 , 1990 , the opposition right-wing IP , one of the government coalition parties for just over a year after the 1987 general election [ see pp. 35138 ; 36430 ] , made gains , especially in Reykjavík , where the IP mayor , Davíd Oddsson , was re-elected by 60.4 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | In-house work , which included scientific support projects as well as research , accounted for just over a quarter of the expenditure . |
| 9 | In terms of current government spending , the most important item is social security , which accounts for just over a quarter of all public expenditure . |
| 10 | Art came second , with more space devoted to it than either maths or language ; it accounted for just over a quarter of all curriculum-specific work areas for younger pupils , and a fifth of those for older pupils . |
| 11 | He also wanted to publish the next volume of the Cantos as soon as possible , in order to bolster Pound 's reputation , although he had expressed private reservations that the most recent work was not of so high a standard as the rest . |
| 12 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 13 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 14 | Do n't be tempted to use wire of too high a rating for the circuit , and NEVER use any other metallic object to rewire a fuse . |
| 15 | Mrs Field demonstrates her technique with the hunting horn during the filming of Too Long a Winter in 1972 ( Courtesy of Yorkshire Television ) |
| 16 | The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond . |
| 17 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |
| 18 | Indeed many advertisers , fearful of too close a relationship with Oz and It , dismissive — or completely ignorant — of Time Out , but wishing for a way into a market that the then flagging Melody Maker and NME were failing to tap , seemed optimistic about the prospects for a new alternative British music paper . |
| 19 | The research proceeds in the manner in which any theoretical piece of work proceeds — by experimenting with general ideas , working out their implications , and checking them against as wide a range of relevant concrete material as possible . |
| 20 | With little over a year at the helm of BBC Radio Suffolk 's Gardening Club , Ric Staines has nevertheless slipped naturally into the role of host . |
| 21 | He would have ducked inside — he was in his working clothes with not even a stud to his shirt — ; but Meredith was already calling out a greeting and advancing towards him . |
| 22 | The colours of the flowers glowed brightly in the early morning light , the grass was covered with a light beading of dew which made it gleam , and the leaves of the trees hung in perfect stillness , with not even a breath of breeze to ruffle them . |
| 23 | Tonight the dry weather will continue with still quite a bit of cloud , particularly over western Scotland . |
| 24 | Choose a fixed camera position with as clear a field of view as possible if you are shooting from a tripod and using an extension microphone . |
| 25 | Using lead/acid or nickel/iron cells a range of 100 kilometres between rechargings can not be exceeded without using batteries with too high a weight as a ratio to total vehicle weight . |
| 26 | We 'd come gently up and down hill , but not much further on the ground fell away abruptly , according to the map 's contour lines , with too hard a climb on the return . |
| 27 | The Russells Hall pupils were immediately able to see that their new working partners opted for as wide a range of activities as they did and joined in with as much interest . |
| 28 | An alternative form of ability grouping was to aim for as wide a range of ability as possible in each group . |
| 29 | This is about as likely a piece of social intercourse as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Young getting together to do National Good Looks Fortnight . |
| 30 | By his own estimate he has spent £38 million in little over a year in his attempt to do so . |