Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 2 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 3 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
| 5 | Thus , the value of the firm is equal to the total value of its expected future stream of cash flows , discounted to take account of the ‘ time value of money ’ ( ’ a pound tomorrow is worth less than a pound today ’ ) and risk . |
| 6 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |
| 7 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 8 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |
| 9 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 10 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 11 | For more than a decade now the Churches in Coatbridge have marked the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity with Joint Services held in several venues . |
| 12 | For more than a year now , that masterpiece of engineering and sculpture , the great Peterhof cascade ( 1714–21 ) consisting of 279 sculptures and sixty-five fountains , has been in a critical condition . |
| 13 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 14 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 15 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 16 | In Bucharest 's university square , scene of anti-front demonstrations for more than a month now , the debate continued with more accusations of electoral malpractice by the front . |
| 17 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Have n't seen hair nor hide of a copper for more than a week now , ’ observed the Commander cheerfully . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 20 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 21 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 22 | It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability . |
| 23 | The Open Graphics Initiative launched by Sun Microsystems Inc more than a year ago to provide an interoperable interface between graphics applications and hardware in the Sparc-compatible market , has published its first complete set of foundation libraries for developers . |
| 24 | Dr Devious had finished twelve lengths behind St Jovite in the Irish Derby and they were separated by less than a nostril yesterday . |
| 25 | Walker , for example , reports on Pavlov 's success in training one dog to salivate to middle C , whether played on a clarinet , tuning fork , or organ pipe , but to no other note varying by more than a semitone however played ; whereas another animal reacted to any notes but only when reproduced by one particular instrument ( 1983 : 246 ) . |